"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."

-- Carl Sagan

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“Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.”
“I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.”
“All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated...”
“It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.”

Source : "17 Minutes With Victoria Justice" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 2, 2012.
“I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.”
“It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.”
“Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”
“Thereâ€™s a passage that I love in Romans 1. â€¦ [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. â€¦ The Bible [is] right every time â€¦ and thatâ€™s why AIDS has been something they havenâ€™t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. â€¦ And that goes to what God says, â€˜Hey youâ€™re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.â€™”

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