Sam Harris Quotes
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
