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• The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Artistic Life, Names, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Men, Thinking, Conscious

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate, Population, Problem

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Law, Matter

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Drama, Lying, Goal

  "The Game Plan - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.

  Lil B

  Being Yourself, Fun, Mean

  "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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• I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down.

  Tyler Cowen

  Technology, Space, Age

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• In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Block, Civilization

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• In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life.

  Mark A. Brennan

  Success, Winning, Artistic Life

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• So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.

  Antony Flew

  Law, Mind, Divine

  Gary R. Habermas, Antony Flew, David J. Baggett (2009). “Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew”, p.100, InterVarsity Press

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• You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

  Ben Cross

  Jobs, Character, Gentleman

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• Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

  Terence Winter

  Fighting, Games, Office

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• I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Fiction, Inferiority, Used

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• To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.

  Richard Stearns

  Jesus, Mean, Hands

  Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

  Homaro Cantu

  Understanding, Cooking, Energy

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• People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

  Jonah Berger

  Thinking, People, Focus

  Jonah Berger (2016). “Contagious: Why Things Catch On”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• What happens on “Mad Men” in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.

  Kurt Sutter

  Beautiful, Writing, Men

  "Kurt Sutter Reflects On ‘Mad Men’ Controversy: Beef Was With AMC, Not Matt Weiner". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, Growth, Speed

  "Billionaire Investor Yuri Milner Believes Xiaomi Will Become A $100 Billion Company" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. December 31, 2014.

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• I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Fans

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• All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Perfect, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.161, Transaction Publishers

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• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Moving, Animal

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

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• To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Names, Form

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• To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

  Aldous Huxley

  Irrelevance, Psychology, Humans

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

  Cesare Pavese

  Women, Believe, Philosopher

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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