Peter Diamandis Quotes

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

Peter Diamandis

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As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

John Burnside

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When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, 'Don't be no clown.' So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, 'Can we change this to just the funniest?'

Jermaine Fowler

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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

John Polanyi

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Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

John Polkinghorne

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The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

Stephen Hawking

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I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.

Matt Bevin

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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

Donella Meadows

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I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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When I was pitching 'Power,' I had an executive say, 'Well, I already have a black show.' He said that right to my face.

Courtney A. Kemp

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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.

Pooja Hegde

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People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

Petina Gappah

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