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I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
— Derek Bok
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when…
— A. N. Wilson
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... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged…
— James Randi
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No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and…
— Aldous Huxley
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Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need."…
— Gloria Gaither
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That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers…
— Gerhard Richter
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Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering…
— Peter Snell
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That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.
— Jon Stewart
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a…
— William Hazlitt
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When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.
— Masahisa Goi
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Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I…
— Arthur Eddington
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I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the…
— Aristotle
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I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I didn't get much…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
— Jamaica Kincaid
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JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
— Kitty Kelley
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There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came…
— Billy Idol
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I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort…
— Winona Ryder
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should…
— Barry Sanders
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
— Socrates
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in…
— Socrates
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Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know…
— Donald Barthelme
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