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That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

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LiveWorldThinkingFindingWant

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

Robert J. Waldinger

LearningGoodLiveSelfGrowBorn

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

Tu Youyou

LearningCuriosityChoiceNewDesire

I choose my work based on what is offered to me. If I see if my role can change the way the show will shape up, I come on board. If me being there in a show will make no difference, then I won't bother being part of it. I am inclined to do things that I haven't done before.

Rithvik Dhanjani

WorkChangeI AmMeChooseDone

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

Mitch Daniels

StepYearMoreAskOverPay

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

ScienceArchitectureGovernmentNever

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

Louise Gluck

LiveSpotlightConversationsLike

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

Jarvis Cocker

AgePastYourselfThoughtLongYou

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Doris Lessing

SocietyDependentOurSomeCollapse

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Deepak Chopra

LiveWisdomHealthBetterMature

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

Bob Beckel

CultureSomewherePop CultureFar

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

Pico Iyer

TodayGreatResponsibilityMeThink

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Pierre Corneille

NatureQualityWomanGamePetty

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