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• The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.

  

  Bob Goodlatte
  • Long
  • America
  • Tree

• When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Real
  • Understanding

• For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Work
  • Advice

• A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

  

  John Sandford

• I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Artist
  • See
  • Temperament

• It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Cold

• The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

  

  W. A. H. Rushton
  • Goal
  • Personality
  • Impress

• [Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Catholic

• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  

  Kate (Ma) Barker
  • Lies

• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Justice
  • Causes
  • Equal

• There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Memories
  • Treasure

• The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Art

• When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • King
  • Hamlet

• Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Spirit
  • Suffer

• If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

  

  Alexander Schmemann
  • Church
  • Act
  • Thanksgiving

• I will not be back after these messages

  

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