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My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Philosophy Explore Life Safe
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

Youthful Beauty Mature Sophisticated
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Ignorance Virtues Little Conversation
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Tell your boyfriend to stop acting like your husband and be one

Boyfriend Stop acting Husband Be one
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Relationships are temporary, friendships are forever! Unless they sleep with your boyfriend!

Relationships Temporary Friendships Forever
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I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

Really dislike Watching myself Very insecure My acting
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You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.

Be happy Sad character Otherwise Get depressed
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To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Bravery Stand up Believe in
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life Will learn Too late The living
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Great believer In luck The harder I work
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising The science Arresting Human intelligence
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Astronomy teachers Correct us The sun The planets
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Ancient times No statistics Fall back On lies
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Men To trust Exact degree Dishonesty
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Political economy Politics Economy
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Two things Ordinary conversation People dislike Information
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Detest Life insurance Always argue Some day
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Skepticism The agent Organized irrationalism Human social
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Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

Life Is short Potential studies Infinite
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

People learn Judgment Their hopes Political manipulation
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People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

Human intelligence Greatest adaptation The history The planet
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Science Integral part Culture Foreign thing
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Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Nothing matches The holiness Fascination Accurate intricate detail
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Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

Geology The immensity Time Taught us
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The causes of life's history cannot resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The causes Life's history Cannot resolve Life's meaning
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If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

We use The past Creature heroes Present purpose
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Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Alter Any event Apparent importance The time
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Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Knowledge Wonder Worthy lives Intellectual beings
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We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Must categorized Simplify Comprehend The reduction
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A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Scientist Hate writing Love being The lab
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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Academic writing Was wonderful Science Less specialized
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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

A minimum Evolutionary pathways Through time Constraints imposed
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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Death The ultimate enemy Nothing reproachable Rage mightily
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The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

More important The subject The closer The bone
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

The mirror Be tempted To equate Transient domination
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All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence.I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Evolutionary biologists Variation itself Is nature's Irreducible essence
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We pass through this world but once.

Pass through This world
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Few tragedies More extensive Life Few injustices
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Creationist critics That evolution Be tested Be viewed
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What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Outstanding feature Life's history Constant domination By bacteria
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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Life began Arose spontaneously Organic compounds Primeval oceans
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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Look up The star Your feet Make sense
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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Difficult life May seem Always something Can do
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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Values Give rise Universes Very beautiful
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God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

God Plays dice Sometimes throw Be seen
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

In danger Destroying ourselves Our greedy Increasingly polluted
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Computer viruses Should court As life Human nature
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Are grounds Cautious optimism Ultimate laws Nature
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Intelligence The ability Adapt Change
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Even people Claim everything Is predestined Change it
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