Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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I like retirement.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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I'm very, very blessed.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.
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If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.
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The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.
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The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
