Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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The search for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them.
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The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.
