Ashoka Quotes
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
Quotes to Explore
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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I just feel like I'm on a quest to fail if I try to even compete with myself.
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I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
