Quotes 121 till 140 of 198.
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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Source: The Guardian (27 september 2005) -
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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Priority is a function of context.
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Source: Different Seasons (1982) -
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
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So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Source: The Nature of Space and Time (1996) -
So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Source: Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) -
Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
Source: Coffey on the Mile (2016) 81 -
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
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Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
Source: Just After Sunset (2008) 531 -
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Source: Duma Key: A Novel (20082016) 559 -
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
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