Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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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.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.
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We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
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When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
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Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
