Emily Dickinson Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
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Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.
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Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
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Don't think OF the market. Think AS the market.
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The best of life is always ahead, always further along.
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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
