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“Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].”
Source : Source: memeburn.com
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“Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.”
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“My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.”
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“The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters”
Source : William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage
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“I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.”
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“Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.”
Source : "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.
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“These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,”