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I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

Penn Jillette

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GoodChildrenPeopleThinkSeemLot

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

Jewel

LoveHomeMyselfFeelHometownYou

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

John Desmond Bernal

ImaginationAnimalMindConnections

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

Anatoly Karpov

LifeMeWorldChampionMy Life

To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

Jeff Fortenberry

YouCreateTransitionCircumstances

I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

Meredith Monk

SpaceThinkLearnArtistCreating

There are lots of little brown girls out there who want to do something to change the world, and all I want to do is help them get there.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

ChangeChange The WorldWorldHelp

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

Mike White

TruthSmartPeopleWritingDeepOut

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Mike Krzyzewski

RespectLieTeamEyeToughThink

I had best friends who were in the industry, and I'm like, it's cool if you get a job, and I'm happy.

Millie Bobby Brown

BestJobHappyCoolFriendsYou

A poll finds the average opinion of a group. It takes the temperature of a crowd. A swarm focuses a group together, in real time, and has them work together as a system to answer a question instead.

Louis B. Rosenberg

WorkTimeTogetherOpinionGroup

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.

Brian Skerry

SeaDayAnimalBlueColorLong

I, at high school, had a very select group of friends. I am still pretty tight with them now. I definitely have a lot more friends than I remember when I go back home!

Brianna Hildebrand

HomeSchoolI AmHigh SchoolFriends

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