Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings… — Seth Copy Share Image
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It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
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I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I was born in the kingdom of Denmark, the birthplace of famous Danish fairytale writer, Hans Christian Andersen. His magical stories have… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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The best writers are gravitating to that world. What's rewarding also is this: you have a two hour movie, you can't really… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I… — Elliot Cowan Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
We have the finest military in the world, an elite group of men and women who continue to be a tremendous source… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
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But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
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The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Matt's [Nix] is much more a part of just the world in terms of there are mutants, mutants are hated and there… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image