Linus Pauling Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
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The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more concrete advantages in the world for people who praise than for those who denounce. So if you want to tell the truth, oftentimes you're going to err on the side of denouncing. That's just something I have to work on.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
