top quotations of all time
risk would-be percent
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. Ferran Adria
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Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been. Paul Arden
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. Ken Kesey
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Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats. Peter Singer
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates. Daniel H. Wilson
Top Art quotes
beautiful men rocks
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. Douglas Sirk
rocks generations youth
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. Ruben Blades
rocks levels able
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level. Bill Dixon
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Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction. Lauren Willig
war use etc
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited Hjalmar Schacht
Top Happiness quotes
running mean thinking
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless. The Edge
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Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy. Mark Russell
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Donna Leon
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Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him. George Steinbrenner
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Top Life quotes
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Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him. Rob Thomas
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Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime. Neil MacGregor
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Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work. Andrew Stanton
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems. Carl Levin
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine
Top Positive quotes
sadness thinking artist
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. Glen Hansard
art practice perfection
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. James Cash Penney
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening Gavin Newsom
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Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult. Graydon Carter
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Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer. Mitchell Baker
Top Travel quotes
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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. Gordon W. Allport
happiness thousand persons
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding
human-nature fine scenery
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. John Keats
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. Murray Walker
moving practice design
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. Harold E. Varmus
Top Beauty quotes
law facts assuming
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. Tryon Edwards
enterprise science
Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. P. T. Barnum
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller
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Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. Moby
Top Hope quotes
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Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight. Howie Carr
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Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself. Neve Campbell
wife people flying
Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter. David Neeleman
groups generations language
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. Jeb Bush
authentic liturgy people
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. Hans Kung
Top Love quotes
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. Immanuel Kant
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Boy George
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Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done. Erik Estrada
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Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again. Sendhil Mullainathan
Top Romantic quotes
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Service is how product is delivered - the technical aspect. Danny Meyer
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. Ron Paul
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Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating. Luanne Rice
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Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche. Martin Seligman
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