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Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

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• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

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• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

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• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  

  Dan Maffei
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• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

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• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  

  Irving Langmuir
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• One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

  

  Gary Hume
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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
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• I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

  

  Yuna
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• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
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• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
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• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
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• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

  

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• Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

  

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• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  

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• Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Religion
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• I can't spare this man, he fights!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• White collar conservative flashing down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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• Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
  • Religion
  • Equals
  • Claiming