Sam Harris Quotes
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.
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We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.
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Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
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I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it
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The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.