"The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes."
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"The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless."
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"I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me."
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"We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is."
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"Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is."
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"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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"I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible."
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"I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace."
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"I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year."
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"Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking."
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"I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it."
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"You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses."
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"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
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"I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill."
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"I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing."
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"If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process."
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"True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist."
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"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine"
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"The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored."
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