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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.: Walter Goodman
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.: Mark Russell (1932 - )
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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If you are capable people are happy to play with you.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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