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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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
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Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.
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The truth is we're all part of one big content universe.
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Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
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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.
