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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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• I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

  August Wilson

  Starting Over, Finding Yourself, World

  August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

  Terry McMillan

  Weakness, Looks, Attention

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• There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.

  Peter Thiel

  Moments, Company, Ifs

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. June 15, 2012.

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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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• There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

  Norman Spinrad

  Fiction, Definitions, Make Sense

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• It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)

  Pearl Cleage

  Home, School, America

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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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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• 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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• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

  O. Henry

  Art, One Love, Hard

  O. Henry (1995). “100 Selected Stories”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Special, Results, Planets

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• To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Wicked, Age, Millennials

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• I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Ideas, Work Out, Entrepreneur

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview With Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Perhaps Love

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.106, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.

  Wes Montgomery

  Inspiration, Cat, Thinking

  Downbeat magazine Interview, 1961.

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• The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

  Josef Mengele

  Believe, Political, Politics

  "Surfing the Tao : A Revolution of Free Will". Book by Angela V. Michaels, 2004.

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