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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith."

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir"

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Alvin Adams Businessman
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"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."

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Amy Grant Singer, Songwriter
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"When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her."

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Andre Gide Novelist
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"Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals."

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
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"Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds."

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