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"During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their 'low contracted prejudices.' And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment - until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective."
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"Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people."
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"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."
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"As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship."
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"And so, as the mob backs away to give them space... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Connor Lassiter holds his family like he'll never let them go."
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"Embrace the social media and utilize it wisely to promote your brand. When you optimize the social media, you may go offline, but your brand will never go off-track."
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"Every thought I have, everything I dois an expression of love to uplift you."
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"It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization."
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"The truth can be known or realized but cannot be change or modify."
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"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."
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"Happiness is a choice and a state of mind."
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"Some people become hypercritical when stressed.Then again, he hadn't been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he'd instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitpicky. Perhaps this would be a good time to call it quits."
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"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."
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"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness."
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"These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe."
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"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time..."
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"Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street."
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"Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye."
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"The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love."
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"The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength."
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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
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"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
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"You have the power to make your own choices. Everything in this world depends upon you ... its all about how you want to spend your life .. once you understand this fact you can come out of illusions of life .. just ask yourself what you want !! Your heart will definitely tell you the truth, and then ... who stops you ??? Its a question and answer as well."
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"Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden."
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"The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people."
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"She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much."
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"Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arses, for they shall not sicken. Blessed are those who boil water, for they shall be called saviors of mankind."
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"Nobody whispers it in your ear. It is like something you memorized once and forgot. Now it comes back and rips away your breath. You find and finger a phrase at a time; you lay it down cautiously, as if with tongs, and wait suspended until the next one finds you: Ah yes, then this; and yes, praise be, then this."
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"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will not have to work hard and sweat it out."
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"A man's immortality can be found in his children."
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"A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon."
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"My malady was submission.The symptom: my compliance.The antidote was loud clear boundaries."
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"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
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"Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history."
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