Sam Harris Quotes
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.
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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...
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The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
