"If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.”
“I hate exercising self-control.”
“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”

Source : "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.
“Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.”
“To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.”
“Once you want something, everything changes.”

Source : "Matched". Book by Ally Condie, November 30, 2010.
“I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.”

Source : "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.
“People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.”

Source : Source: www1.cbn.com

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