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"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."
"The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost."
"I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying."
"How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new."
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."
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"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all."
"...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting."
"One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself."
"You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently."
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor."
"Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments."
"Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read."
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
"I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter."
"Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it"
"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting."
"If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain."
"It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function."
"It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup."
"Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!"
"For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction."
"That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment."
"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
"One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog."
"Whatever you love most, that is your god."
