"I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render."
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"I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove."
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"I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more."
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"Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed."
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"It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel."
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"Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff."
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"I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it."
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"I knew when I left to go to start my career, you don't want to get in front of a band and say, uh, give me "Stardust" without saying D-flat."
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"We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?"
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"We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us."
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"Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect."
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"I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it."
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"One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and give real-life meaning to the constitutional mandate that there be equal protection under law."
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"Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves."
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"Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there."
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"To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long."
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"But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl."
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"Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude."
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"War can't give life, it can only take it away."
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"Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance."
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