Quotern

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Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.

-- Nicola Cabibbo

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But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

-- Frank Herbert

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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

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Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.

-- Charles Dickens

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If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. If I'm awake, never let me sleep.

-- Chinese Proverb

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I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion.

-- Thomas Hardy

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I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!

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I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

-- Pablo Picasso

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