Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
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Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
George V
Monarch
"I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien."
Terence
Philosopher, Poet
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me."
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"Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us."
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"Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it."
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"I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender."
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"Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one."
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"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."
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"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve."
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"I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength."
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"In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us."
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"You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation."
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"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."
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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
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"A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."
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"If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life."
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"Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life."
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"Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth."
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"I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe."
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"He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs."
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"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
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"Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie."
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