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We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules. We see reddish stuff on the surface that we think is organic material.

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• I love my work but do not know how I write it.

  

  Zane Grey
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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
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• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
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• I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
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• There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
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• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
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• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
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• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it was important for children, and especially girls, to have that time with their dad so that they could help develop their confidence and their critical thinking skills.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.

  

  Kurt Elling
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• I love food, man! If it doesn't eat me first, I'll pretty much eat it.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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• She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules. We see reddish stuff on the surface that we think is organic material.

  

  David Grinspoon
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