Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
ALAN ALDAAnd I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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