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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject. Noel Riley Fitch
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. Joseph Campbell
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs. Will Rogers
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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. A. S. Byatt
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book. Denis O'Hare
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My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice. Dan Wakefield
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Mental illnesses involve biological brain disorders, no matter what Tom Cruise says, Brad Grey
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
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Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'. Chip Kidd
humanity
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. Chinua Achebe
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
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Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime David Mitchell
humanity originality specks
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
humanity states organized
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
humanity identity divorced
Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity. David Kim
life strong truth
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
life autism world
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
life littles
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
life people astonishing
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Charles Caleb Colton
life soul prison
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
life happiness dark
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
system word
We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. Ashley Montagu
system weakness
There is a weakness in the system somewhere,
systems
I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there. Paul Otellini
system
We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.
systems weather
Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.
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As one individual changes, the system changes. Ram Dass
system talking
There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about. Bill Belichick
system
We need a better dredging system that we have now.