Seth Shostak Quotes

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

Seth Shostak

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I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

Joanna Lumley

ThinkYouNothingProveHeadUp

My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.

Amy Purdy

LifeMeStrongBodyNowHim

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.

Stephen Kinzer

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Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

Sophia Amoruso

GoodJobSchoolCollegeBetterGo

Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.

Sibel Kekilli

WomanYourselfI AmCareTake Care

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Simon McBurney

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I love red licorice, but any bright candy - tangy taffy, Fruit Roll-Ups - does the trick.

Tory Burch

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I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

Tony Campolo

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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Russell Baker

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On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment.

Michael Spence

ChangeInvestmentChainsWillOwn

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

Molly Ivins

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When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.

Clemantine Wamariya

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