Sam Harris Quotes
Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
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You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I'm just portraying this guy.
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Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?
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Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
