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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you need to endure it.… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
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I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a… — Jason Wiles Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I think we roll our eyes at older men with younger women and go, 'Oh, he's going through a midlife crisis and… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Internalize the vagrant mind and fix it in the Lord. Then the meditation will be profound and intense. Don't open the eyes.… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The first Knightfall story is four issues, and it is extremely focused and intense. People who have read, say, the 'Cats In… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you… — Nat Faxon Copy Share Image
I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three… — William Tapley Bennett Jr Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image