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• You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  People, Soul, Brain

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• Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Clothes, Want, Being The Best

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• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  Samantha Barks

  Girl, Years, Machines

  "Samantha Barks, Eponine In ‘Les Miserables,’ On Winning One Of Hollywood’s Most Coveted Roles". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

  Kathleen Battle

  Song, Light, People

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• I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Dream, White, Shakes

  "Dirk Now Highest-Scoring Player Not From U.S". dfw.cbslocal.com. November 12, 2014.

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• Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Moving, Hands, Giving

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.180, Penguin

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• If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Winning, Office, Different

  "OMG, You Have to Take 5 Minutes to Read Our Hilarious Interview With New Girl's Jake Johnson!". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Although actions speak louder than words, I believe it is our intentions that reveal our soul. Refrain from judging others based solely on their words and actions, and seek to know their deepest intentions so that you can know who they truly aspire to be, and support them in becoming the best version of themselves.

  Hal Elrod

  Believe, Thinking, Becoming The Best

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Bored, Important

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Hype, Gathering

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• "Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Men, Mad, Trying

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Directors, Minutes

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs. I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Hate, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

  Nelson Goodman

  Creativity, World

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• Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

  Patrick Cleburne

  Education, Teacher, Giving Up

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• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Writing, Feels

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• ...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Inspirational, Reality, Six

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.254, Hay House, Inc

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• Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Motive, Accurate

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• The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Ego, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.

  David Hare

  Views, People, Political

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Thinking, Way, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  Men, Order, Data

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin (1996). “Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind”, Wiley

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• A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

  Bill Barich

  Eye, Usual, Way

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