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“I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.”

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John Hawkes is an American film actor known for his performances in independent films. Born on September 11, 1959, he gained widespread acclaim for his roles in 'Winter's Bone' and 'The Tree of Life'. more

“Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.”

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Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.”

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Author:Jerry Doyle

“Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.”

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Author:Thomas A. Bailey

“What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable.”

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Author:Peter David

“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”

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Author:Will Graham

“Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.”

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Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.”

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Author:Mohammed Daoud Khan

“I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.”

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Author:John Hawkes

“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.”

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Author:Edmund Morgan

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