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It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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When I was maybe three years old, I was obsessed with this song 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelberg. My mom took me to the mall and bought me a 45 of it. We would listen to that song all the time.
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T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound was brutal. Final.
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There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.
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It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.
