Lucan Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early days, I watched Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy,' which was a beautiful take on social realism.
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There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
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I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
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Sunday school don't make you cool forever.
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There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was 'style' and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a 'style' that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.
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I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.
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Ecce parens verus patriae.
