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		Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ken Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oriana Fallaci 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bat for Lashes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Perino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Feist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olympia Snowe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Foster Friess 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chuck Klosterman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Forbes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, 'I do not believe you can do as much.' 'True,' said he, 'but every goose can.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Plutarch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jilly Cooper 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rabindranath Tagore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ken Robinson