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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school… — Eric Allin Cornell
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the… — William Jennings Bryan
I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find… — Arthur Fry
The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The… — Jonah Goldberg
With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where… — Richard III of England
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay… — Anna Quindlen
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds… — Orson Scott Card
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can… — Murathan Mungan
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. — Socrates
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity… — Elwyn Brooks White
There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close… — Gautama Buddha
For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which… — Gautama Buddha
It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one. — William Sloane Coffin
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. — Linji Yixuan
We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not… — Carl Safina
At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have… — Nathan C Schaeffer
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. — Samuel Grafton
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open,… — Wayne Muller
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to… — Peter Senge

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