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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
Philosophical

“I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.”

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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
Melancholic

“I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.”

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Stephen Harper Politician
Philosophical

“I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.”

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Stephen Harper Politician
Sad

“It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.”

Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Philosophical

“Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.”

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Stephen King Author
Funny

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

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Stephen King Author
Angry

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

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Stephen King Author
Determined

“But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.”

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Stephen King Author
Hopeful

“I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.”

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Stephen King Author
Spiritual

“I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."”

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Stephen King Author
Sad

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”

Robin Guthrie Musician
Creative

“I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.”

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