Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes
The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.
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As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?
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I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'
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I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.
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In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
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I don't do any Class A -especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.
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I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
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I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.
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When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate.
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While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.
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Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation to say, "We want you to be a scholar. We want you to go on doing this. But do it as a bishop!"
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The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.
