Sam Harris Quotes
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?” “What are you doing twenty feet in the air?” “Looking for a book.” “Would you mind very much returning to the earth?” “What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?” “I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.” “You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.
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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
