Andrew Solomon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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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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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.
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The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.
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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
