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• In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Wrestling, Angel, Jacob

  "The Case for God?". BBC Documentary, September 06, 2010.

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• It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Flower, Eye, Reality

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Forever, Want, Immortal Life

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Integrity, Crazy, Moving

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• The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

  Alan Coren

  Provocative, Policy, Accidents

  The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions 'A Short History of Insurance'

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• Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

  Billie Jean King

  Play, Focus, Tennis

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• The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

  Tony Wilson

  People, Special, Investment

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• From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

  William Barrett

  Philosophy, Spring, Character

  William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books

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• Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Running, Passion, Nonprofits

  "Marry Him!" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. March 2008.

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• My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of
  mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons.
  Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful
  developments that are taking place there.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mass Destruction, Engineering, Gmos

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• It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

  Arthur Eddington

  War, Distance, Men

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

  Richard Stallman

  Able, Masters, Software

  "The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom". Richard Stallman's lecture in Zagreb, Croatia, fsfe.org. March 9, 2006.

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• The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  World, Clicks

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• Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Self, Important, Needs

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• I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

  Bill Bryson

  Rooms, Kind, Excited

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• If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

  Walter Rodney

  Humanity, Revolutionary, Prove

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• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

  Mo Yan

  Jobs, Love Is, Names

  Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  Park Geun-hye

  Democracy, Doe, Ends

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• We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Country, Technology, Guy

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Soldier, Admiration, Aeroplanes

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• The pace of change means that relationship is more important than ever before.

  Dave McLaughlin

  Marketing, Important, Pace

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• Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.

  Tony Hsieh

  Hug, Marketing, Return

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• Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

  John Wooden

  Mean Girls, Apathy

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

  Emanuel Ax

  Likes, Should, Applause

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• Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

  Leon Kass

  Men, Sexuality, Mortality

  Amy A. Kass, Leon Kass (2000). “Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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