"Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch."
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"My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted."
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"Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass."
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"The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience."
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"Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem."
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"My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?"
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"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves."
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"The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves."
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"In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence."
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"A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability."
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"Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree."
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"To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity"
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"In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have."
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"When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job."
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"I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person."
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"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."
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"I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros."
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"Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies."
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"Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource."
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"Money is a kind of poetry."
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