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All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If,… — Stephen Hawking
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers… — George Lucas
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried. — Toni Morrison
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who… — Rudyard Kipling
Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to be a very… — Rajneesh
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be… — Rajneesh
You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From… — Rajneesh
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character. — Joseph Barbera
I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell. — Thomas Browne
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried. — William Shakespeare
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can… — Gary Hamel
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not… — Dennis Kucinich
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. — Paul Cezanne
When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute… — Randall Terry
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am. — Marilyn Manson

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