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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. Arthur C. Clarke

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Ayn Rand

Cowardice Than Conformist Lower Fashionable Level

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. Bill Bryson

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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. Bruce Feiler

World Walk Take Behold Pause Turtle

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. Bruce Feiler

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The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way. Bruce Feiler

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematics Nile Magnificence Study Like Begins Ends

When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton

You Nothing Say

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe

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The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. Chinua Achebe

Great You Problem Diversity Statement Through Simplify Instead Idea Stereotype Going Maybe Just Just One Large Whole

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world. Clint Smith

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. D. H. Lawrence

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. Daisaku Ikeda

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie

You Will Enthusiastic Act

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. Dave Pelzer

People Strong Better Cause Negative Understanding Possess Strong Desire Environment Wrong Persist Any Break Themselves Chain Right Basic Basic Understanding Desire

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset. Dave Pelzer

You Cancer Victim Mindset Survivor

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships. David D. Burns

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Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. David Rakoff

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