Isaac Asimov Quotes
'Fifty years,' I hackneyed, 'is a long time.' 'Not when you’re looking back at them,' she said. 'You wonder how they vanished so quickly.'

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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I am healthy and happy.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.
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This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
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I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
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It takes time for people to respect you.
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'Fifty years,' I hackneyed, 'is a long time.' 'Not when you’re looking back at them,' she said. 'You wonder how they vanished so quickly.'