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"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
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"It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever."
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"You think because you are born of light that you're somehow better and kinder than those who aren't, but you're not. It merely makes you feel entitled in your wrongful actions against others. But, you're no better than my mother. If anything you're worse because you think your viciousness is justified..."
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"No human was created without a purpose."
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"I like stories where women save themselves."
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"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
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"Never meditate nor dwell on the past."
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"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."
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"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."
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"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."
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"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
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"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base."
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"Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done."
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"Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it's used up, it is called living."
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"Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them."
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"If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind."
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"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."
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"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
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"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
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"This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her."
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"The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over."
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"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
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"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
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"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores."
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"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
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"Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin began to maunder on about taxes and money creating jobs, but he might as well have been spilling out words at random for all the sense he made."
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"Many people associate resolutions with failure because they've broken promises to themselves so many times before. They don't want to fail again, and as a result, they avoid setting goals. For the wise people who do set resolutions, research has shown you are ten times more likely to improve your life when you do. What are you willing to do to make your dreams come true?"
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"Life is all about conversion."
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"Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives."
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"Don't die with your music still in you, play your music unencumbered. Should your guitar remain unstrung?"
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"I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need."
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"Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me."
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"Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction."
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"If you don't know who you are, you will be someone else."
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"When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar--who hands him the paper every morning."
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"The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim."
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