"I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead."
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"Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious."
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"The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty."
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"The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years."
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"When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others."
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"I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people."
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"I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it."
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"The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately."
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"Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous."
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"The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience."
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"We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them."
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"Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet."
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"An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right."
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"I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure."
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"In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word."
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"Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient."
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"Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system."
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"50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use."
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"A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event."
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"Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing."
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