William A. Dembski Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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The leader of the band is tiredAnd his eyes are growing oldBut his blood runs through my instrumentAnd his song is in my soul -My life has been a poor attemptTo imitate the man.I'm just a living legacyTo the leader of the band.
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There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.
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I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.
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Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.
