David Gelernter Quotes
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
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When will the African people unite? When will the African people come together? Europeans, Americans getting stronger every day, And there is disunity among the African people
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
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Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.
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Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
