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“With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.”
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“I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home”
Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”
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“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”
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“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.”
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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
Source : Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
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“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
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“I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue,”