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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Done God Kinds People
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Entrepreneur Job Now Son
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Cause Explanation Justification Reason
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Contribution Deepest Experience Fulfillment
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Nonsense Questions Quite Mortal
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Believing Humble People Pious
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Inhabit Animals Belong Eternal
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Joy Pleasures Sometimes Whether
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

Because Better Bigger Just
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Break Fact Laws Miracles
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Call Instrument Man Nature
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Apart Before Began Done
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheist Cannot Careful Man
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Happiness Hard Interests Less
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Another Educated English Good
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carry Imagination Never Nowhere
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Benign Hostile Indifferent Merely
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

Bad Planet Save Trouble
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Bright Classes Night Rise
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Had Humility Little Only
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Chance Continue Death Delighted
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition Harmony Human Perfect
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Bearable Creatures Love Only
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

Acting Business Get Here
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Being Fired Nothing Wrong
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Body Knowledge More Science
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Brain Good Joyous Muscle
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Away Gave Had Half
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Airplane Be Happy Cell Cell Phone
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Been Blood Financial Good
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Anyone Anything Dependent Hardly
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Better Delusion Far Grasp
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Deep Nonsense Religion Science
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Believe Disservice Long Reason
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Brothers Clown Columbus Fact
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Power Prescription Science Technology
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Always Beyond Goals Live
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Awake Basic Understanding Citizenry
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Absence Evidence Not
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

Again Leave Life Like
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Come Help Hint Obscurity
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Arbitrary Between Boundary Earth
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

Better Better Job Could Good
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

It Is What It Is Marriages More Regret
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

Around Broke Fast Get
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