Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
Yelawolf
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
Hamilton Jordan
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
Karan Johar
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
Taylor Hicks
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
Francis Bacon
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.
Edward Hallowell
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The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.
Richard Feynman
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The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
William Ellery Channing
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It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
Robert Wilson Lynd
