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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

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Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

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Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

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We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

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I'd like to think that on a lot of teams, I'd be a No.1. The thing I do know is that every time I take the mound, in my mind I'm the best pitcher in the league.

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I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

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I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

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Great minds think for themselves.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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