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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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I'm all about people that appreciate, that are grateful, that smile, that have a sense of humour - the dirtier the laugh, the better- that's my kind of vibe... and I hope that's the kind of thing that I attract.
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Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
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Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
