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  • Bill Nye If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bel Powley If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Brett Hull If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Hyman G. Rickover If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.
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  • Branford Marsalis If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bill Engvall If you're just a nice guy - you don't let people walk on you - but if you're just a nice guy and treat people right, good things happen.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Betty Carter If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Barbara Castle If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Henri Estienne If youth but knew; if age but could.
    Henri Estienne
    French printer and classicist (1528 - 1598)
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  • Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Confucius Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Blaise Pascal Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
    Cosmos (1980) 26
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John Lennon Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Camille Paglia Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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