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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
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Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.
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No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
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I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.
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Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.
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The maintenance of equilibrium in forward flight is a matter of practice, and can only be learned by repeated personal experiment.
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The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
