Albert Einstein Quotes
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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We should all love animals.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.
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Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.
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I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
