Scott Adams Quotes
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Larry Kramer
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
Rachelle Lefevre
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
Carlene Carter
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
Abigail Disney
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
Parker Harris
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
Hanna Rosin
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
Gary Speed
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
Carine Roitfeld
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
Laura Schlessinger
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
Eamon de Valera
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
Ragnar Frisch
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I was put here to sing.
Ronald Isley The Isley Brothers
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.
Leo Varadkar
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I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food.
Kevin Macdonald
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The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.
Scott Adams