Pythagoras Quotes
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Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
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In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
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We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
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My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
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We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.
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I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.
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There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to Hong Kong to escape. I realised in the '60s that I had to get out.
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As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
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One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
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Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
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I can't wait till a big game comes around, especially a Classic, ... Opening game, it's going to be a big crowd playing on our own field. I thrive on that. I like playing in front of those kinds of crowds. I can't wait. I have so much confidence going in.
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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
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True ownership of anything requires time.
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Don't disarrange my circles!
