Leonard Mlodinow Quotes
The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
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If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
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But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
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I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.
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I was fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom of the sea seemed so terrifying. I was very interested in making a sub film which wasn't a military film. You think, Well, why are they there, then, if they're not in the military? Oh, well, they must be looking for treasure.
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The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.
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The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.
