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• When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love Each Other, Breach, Estrangement

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1869). “Run to Earth: A Novel”, p.156

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• Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Newspapers, Controversy

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• An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

  Charles Ives

  Long, Confusion, Unity

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.

  A. J. Green

  Inspiration, Mean, Cells

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• The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

  Robert Sternberg

  Thinking, Essence, Knowing

  "It Will Be Hard To ‘Save Time’ In The New Year" by Richard C. Senelick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.

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• It seems I’m getting fresher everytime I turn around.

  Mac Miller

  Turns

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• Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.

  Wilder Penfield

  Essence, Mind, Doe

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• Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Girl, Teenage, Hate

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• History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

  John D. Barrow

  Thinking, People, Doubt

  John D. Barrow (1992). “Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The universe is the way it is , whether we like
  it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent
  of our desires . A world without God or purpose may seem harsh
  or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Independent, Desire, Purpose

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beautiful, Flower, Smell

  Physics Today, November 2005.

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• Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Law, Choices

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• I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

  Fred Durst

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Limp Bizkit on their reunion album--and who exactly was to blame for their break up in the first place". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. May 5, 2010.

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• The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Tattoo, Rap, Hair

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• All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing

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• The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.

  John Lennox

  Atheist, Clever, Views

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• All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

  Tim LaHaye

  Burden, Shoulders, Deeper

  Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2014). “The Left Behind Collection”, p.457, NavPress

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• What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

  Jacques Attali

  Communication, Self, Growth

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.

  George Jung

  Blow, Thinking, Goes On

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• Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

  David Chalmers

  Giving, Doe, Rich

  David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

  Abraham Foxman

  Mistake, Past, Blame

  "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.

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• If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.

  Khushwant Singh

  Men, Triumph, Doe

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India

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• There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

  Julian Barbour

  Moving, Live In The Moment, Moments

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• We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Simple, Reality, Understanding

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• Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

  Paul Davies

  Law, Design, Purpose

  Paul Davies (1985). “Superforce”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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