"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

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"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

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"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

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"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."

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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."

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"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

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"Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it."

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"One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written."

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"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

Max Eastman, American Author

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"I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave."

Just Fontaine, French Athlete

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"The goals made such a difference to the way this game went."

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"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this."

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"God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God."

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"I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America."

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"Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions."

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"When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have."

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"Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions-so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?"

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"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"

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"We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time."

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