Seth Lloyd Quotes
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.
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Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
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The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'
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I want to be a billionaire, and then I want to change something in the world for real.
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Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are facts of life which must be faced.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down.
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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
