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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.


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GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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RALPH MERKLE If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.
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CRAIG VENTER Our story was really about the culture and the people, the areas where there is human habitation.
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J.M. ROBERTS To err is human, but it feels divine.
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JILL CONNER BROWNE I think this idea may have been oversold. There are hints, but the evidence isn't very solid.
MARGARET GATZ I need to apply the same standard that previous nominees have applied, and that's no hints and no pr...
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DEYTH BANGER Imperfection is perfection.
FLUME Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of ...
ALPHONSO X 'THE WISE' There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
VICTOR HUGO At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typic...
GUENAEL RODIER There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which fea...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH We've had hints of it all through the year.
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ANDREA DWORKIN No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. AUDEN Perfection itself is imperfection.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ So far there is no evidence for increased chance of human-to-human transmission.
DR MARGARET CHAN At the very best, this hints at a muted recovery, and that's a long way from what tech bulls are exp...
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NEIL POSTMAN Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI As a preschool teacher, perfection is imperfection!
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ETHAN HARRIS Never boast of your perfection,because imperfection may just be knocking at your door.
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ANDY CROUCH There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in...
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BEN OAK In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but...
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MASAMICHI KOIKE So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dog...
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RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Storytelling is at the heart of what we do, ... We both strive to capture and reflect the full range...
ED BENSON As well as hints from Asian authorities that they are going to diversify, we now have the U.S. ackno...
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DEJAN STOJANOVIC There is no need for panic. This is not an epidemic spread from human to human.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY It is a situation where MCSEs had no idea that there is a fundamental vulnerability in IIS and ISAPI...
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BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND