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To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to… — Carlos Castaneda
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do… — Walter E. Williams
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter… — Margaret Halsey
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer… — Richard Hamming
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — Isaac Asimov
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.… — Richard Dawkins
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other… — Isaac Newton
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from… — Bruce Jenner
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. — Philip Roth
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush… — H. L. Mencken
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of… — Paul Davies
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population… — Bertrand Russell
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. — Anna Wintour
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an organic part, nothing… — Rajneesh

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