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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with ... RICHARD DAWKINS When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, ... SHARON SALZBERG What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect... STEPHEN HAWKING How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what t... JILL LEPORE Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get ther... JOYCE CAROL OATES In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR We are what we are. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. PEGGY TONEY HORTON The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The questions we ask ourselves, in our head, determine where we focus, how we think, how we feel, an... MADDY MALHOTRA Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where w... TONI MORRISON Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental... BENEDICT XVI Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or tha... HELEN KELLER But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ours... HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in t... FRANCIS CRICK No matter where we go we take ourselves and our damage, with us. So is home the place we run to, or ... DEXTER MORGAN We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our nei... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we... LYSSA DANEHY DEHART I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we b... JOYCE GIRAUD Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come fro... JAN VAN RUYSBROECK We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," th... ALAN W. WATTS we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu... SIMCHA GLUCK You said that you are ill... but from from what? DEYTH BANGER It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to... DANIEL J. BOORSTIN It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn,... KATHERINE MIN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made fr... MAD MAGAZINE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs... MERCE CARDUS See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We are conscious, we can see ourselves separate from the universe. KIAN NIKZAD The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and... DAVID GROSS If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr... NATHANIEL BRANDEN It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo... SETH SHOSTAK We project based on where we our in our life and our beliefs at that moment; however, when we shift ... WILIAM CONSTANTINE It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generation... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live... CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about... BRAD PITT And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where lig... JAKE HALPERN In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and... SHEKHAR KAPUR I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And ... ABIGAIL WASHBURN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that conn... BRENé BROWN We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselv... VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imagin... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its desti... R.G. RISCH In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe.... DAVID BOHM In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ... DAVID BOHM In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,
is a clue to the universe. ... DAVID BOHM Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the stre... BRENé BROWN We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes arti... PAUL HAWKEN Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste SOTONYE ANGA A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN People are telling us, 'We live in a high-tech world, everything's on high speed. We want to be in a... LEATRICE EISEMAN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything. Who knows if I’ll be dead the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be en... STEPHEN RICHARDS A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? I... STANISłAW LEM She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Without giving too much away, obviously there'll be a little bit of the origin and then we come into... AVI ARAD This is where Danny and I could come. We could come for refuge away from the stress of what was goin... AMY WILLIAMS Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou... WILLIAM J. CLINTON What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ALBERT PINE Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be h... DR. CARL SAGAN Certainly for us it's a sad day. Some good can come from this, but it doesn't help our reputation. A... ERIC FIDLER It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Where did our picture of reality
come from? Throughout time
challenged realities have changed
the la... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe LAUREN MYRACLE (LET IT SNOW) I tell people to come see what we do. We have four different programs from Career and Technology ins... GARY MCCLANAHAN Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everythin... ROBERT BUETTNER I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media. SHEPARD SMITH The Southerner does not have to labor to learn some things. We already know from the start who we ar... DONALD DAVIDSON The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not on... ALAN LEE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, ... LARRY SMALL The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the p... CESARE PAVESE It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we... SONIA RUMZI We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always ... MALCOLM GLADWELL
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RAFAEL ALCANTARA In January, the market might wake up again. RAFAEL ALCANTARA I have never seen an increase like it. I don't think any stock market in the world has risen more th... RAFAEL ALCANTARA We think we should be building bridges, not fences. RAFAEL LAVEAGA It's his birthday and scoring goals is the best way to celebrate for a striker but we are not talkin... RAFAEL BENITEZ bastion for forging relations with new strategic partners. RAFAEL RAMIREZ We tried until the very end to sign Michael. We even made phone calls early yesterday morning. In th... RAFAEL BENITEZ As long as I got my pants back... RAFAEL NADAL I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me, RAFAEL NADAL I'm number one in the tournament, but number one doesn't always win, RAFAEL NADAL I don't want to think about it because I always want to stay the same, ... I only want to think abou... RAFAEL NADAL I played almost four hours today, ... I'm very, very tired. RAFAEL NADAL I lost a little bit of confidence about me, ... I am not playing good this week...There are moments ... RAFAEL NADAL 100% to win this match. RAFAEL NADAL [So it should come as no surprise that, like a lot of folks who see their name in print and bright l... RAFAEL FURCAL If you looked any Manchester City supporter in the eye, they knew I wanted to come back and I don't ... RAFAEL BENITEZ I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's g... RAFAEL PALMEIRO His fastball location the first two innings was not there, and that was forcing him to make too many... RAFAEL CHAVES I would rather have Steven available for the next month rather than just 80 minutes of this match. RAFAEL BENITEZ Suenos. Dulces Suenos. He must be painting upstairs. I can feel it. I remember when h... RAFAEL ALVAREZ The favorite is always the No. 1. I can win. Blake can win. But the favorite is the No. 1. RAFAEL NADAL This whole issue of diversity is not a race thing. It's not about whether you're black, Asian or whi... RAFAEL SANCHEZ If we finish second it will be fantastic, but very difficult. At the moment I am not thinking about ... RAFAEL BENITEZ The small details are the difference and maybe we should have had a penalty or even two penalties. RAFAEL BENITEZ I'm delighted. It's incredible to be in another final and even more special to do it in Madrid. RAFAEL NADAL We talk about early contact. But if your early contact goes into the gap it doesn't mean crap. Good ... RAFAEL CHAVES What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward. RAFAEL SABATINI To beat Roger is always special. Every match is different. This one was easy at first and then becam... RAFAEL NADAL I like playing on grass a lot, but I know it's not my best surface, it's a little bit fast. RAFAEL NADAL I still have one year of my contract to go but my priority is Barcelona and I don't know anything ab... RAFAEL MARQUEZ Foster is wrong. There's nothing morally complex about what Riefenstahl did as Hitler's favorite fil... RAFAEL MEDOFF I watched my gestures, ... Usually, I would be more pumped up. I tried not to show as much. He's a v... RAFAEL NADAL I watched my gestures. Usually, I would be more pumped up. I tried not to show as much. He's a very ... RAFAEL NADAL It is very nice that every so often my name is being linked with different clubs in Spain. But I can... RAFAEL BENITEZ As my playing progressed I started playing Santana and Jimmy Hendrix. RAFAEL MENDEZ Chelsea are not unbeatable. We have beaten them before and we can beat them again. They are a better... RAFAEL BENITEZ