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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were

not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. Asa Gray Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world. Peter Davison The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. Henry James Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth. Nicolaus Copernicus Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. James Galway)
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the

Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. Edith Stein The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. George Richards Minot You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something. Jim Capaldi The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. Aaron Eckhart Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power. Eric San Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. Bill Moyers I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' Garrison Keillor
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the

most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. John McCarthy It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts. Mike Pence The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. Samuel Chase We get paid for bringing value to the market place. Jim Rohn We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something. Charlotte Bunch Indolence is the sleep of the mind. Luc de Clapiers I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. Barry Mann
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as

to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. Louisa May Alcott After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. Bette Midler Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. William J. Clinton You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra
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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at

its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. Ellen Willis It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like. Sean Booth A few honest men are better than numbers. Oliver Cromwell He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison. Daniel Drew You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing. Denis Waitley From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. Ellsworth Huntington It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. Thomas Paine
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Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to

turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point. Lloyd Cutler So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are. Edgar Bergen Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it. Carrie Donovan A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. Marcus Tullius Cicero You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. Margaret Atwood The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old

plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. Andrew Taylor Still Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. Jane Austen People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. Ogden Nash We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. Mignon McLaughlin If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. Frank Langella People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist. Smokey Robinson I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are. Robert Cormier
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much

to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. Fanny Burney Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes. Mike Gordon Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God. Stockwell Day I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. Johnny Carson If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. Emile M. Cioran There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. William James Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition. Robert B. Parker
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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a

prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas. Bennie Thompson With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. Ernst Haas Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make. Herb Kohl I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. Bill Murray Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. Jesse Ventura You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back. Morning Star If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. Wendell Phillips
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the

spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. Jones Very Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. Charles Hodge Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. Levi Strauss The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. Bob Hope Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. Truman Capote United we stand, divided we fall. Aesop I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat. Art Garfunkel
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I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else.

It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. Sean Combs There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. Sonny Rollins Those who can command themselves command others. William Hazlitt We're playing strip billiards. Roger Vadim Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. William Shakespeare A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen And love is love in beggars and in kings. Edward Dyer
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the

devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. John Kenneth Galbraith I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it. Jerry Doyle The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. John Maynard Keynes The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. Georges Bernanos I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older. Lusia Strus I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant. Peter Davison A character is a completely fashioned will. Novalis
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It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the

illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. Kim Il-sung The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. Chris Van Allsburg It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams I believe education is the great equalizer. Dave Heineman I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it. Karrie Webb I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand. John Harvey Kellogg
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead

it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. Nicolaus Copernicus We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses. Richard M. Daley There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. Agnetha Faltskog In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. Alain Prost The most dangerous people are the ignorant. Henry Ward Beecher To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Henry Drummond If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. Elizabeth Blackwell
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy

with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. Jack Kevorkian Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie. Robert Higgs The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. Susan George The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. Denis Kearney Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change! Jimmy Swaggart
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I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were

to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that. Michelle Branch Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us. Bill Lee Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. George Carlin He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. Thomas Fuller I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. Trevor Dunn The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. George Stephen Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress,

and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. Irving Babbitt I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music. Abbey Lincoln Is being an idiot like being high all the time? Janeane Garofalo New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. David Letterman The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. Adlai E. Stevenson Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. Thomas Aquinas People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. Sam Worthington
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Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the

24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older. Keke Palmer I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for. Kirk Cameron I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. Joshua Roman Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. Craig Venter Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introdu...
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In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be

to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit. Robert Zemeckis There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. Jill Scott I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. Jane Fonda For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. Nora Roberts Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I...
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What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing

one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person. Rick Santorum We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not. Michael Bloomberg Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. Leslie Fiedler If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds. Brian McDermott I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the wh...
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I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and

more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead! Gloria Estefan Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity. Reid Hoffman We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony. Matt Mullenweg The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problem...
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First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant

about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. Steven Van Zandt The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. David Leavitt If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes. Victoria Justice Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and m...
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I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail

stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics. John Paul DeJoria My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that. Emeril Lagasse If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. Mitt Romney Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about,...
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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking

at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. Matt Mullenweg At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise. Jim Goetz I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture. Claire Denis I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. Kyp Malone St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of w...
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I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest

optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties. Douglas Southall Freeman Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did. Hugh Hefner I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights. Ani DiFranco 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. Oscar Isaac I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line. Elizabeth McCracken I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others perceive them. Gillian Zinser I think it's a mis...
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did

a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song. Idina Menzel Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative. Brendan I. Koerner Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. Nicolas Roeg I'm glad many Jews attend Knick games. Amar'e Stoudemire If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed. Mohamed Al-Fayed That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. Adam Hughes I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments. Joakim Noah We've seen oth...
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I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a

lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much. Troy Donahue I was made fun of in the Midwest - I was the only Asian in my graduating class of 200. Fortunately, I found my niche, and it was fine. But I wanted to be so white, you wouldn't believe it. I was like, 'I want to be white; I don't want to be this anymore.' But now I embrace it. Reggie Lee Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience. Daphne Oz As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside. Pippa Middleton The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin b...
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