David Eagleman Quotes

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

David Eagleman

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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Jimmy Carter

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You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Jim Mattis

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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Joe E. Lewis

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I moved back to Buffalo in 2009, and I had this moment where I wanted to have the best of both worlds. I wanted to be able to be in church and cook at home but then still get on a plane and fly back to New York and be this supermodel.

Jessica White

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I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Jennifer Rowe

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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

John Moody

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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

Anita Desai

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

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When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

Robert Zubrin

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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Rudolf Steiner

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I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.

Jonathan Levine

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China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.

Arancha Gonzalez

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