Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
Marcus Aurelius
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I'm big on research.
James L. Brooks
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The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
David Horsey
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.
Freddie Freeman
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Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Philip Sidney
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Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
Eric Maskin
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
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The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...
Harlan Stone
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Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space.
Leonard Susskind
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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.
Lisa Unger
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Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
F. M. Powicke