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• The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Years, Data

  "Freeman Dyson forecasts the future" by Freeman Dyson, www.newscientist.com. November 2006.

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• As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.

  Barbara Wentroble

  Prayer, Voice, Earth

  Barbara Wentroble (2003). “Prophetic Intercession: Unlocking Miracles and Releasing the Blessings of God”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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• If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.

  Jacob Hacker

  Long, Feelings, Growth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would.

  Alissa Nutting

  Writing, Sleep, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

  Theodore Zeldin

  Learning, Knowledge, Technology

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• History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Real, Team, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.

  Francis Collins

  Exhilaration, Moments, Found

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• I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, Sunset

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Technology, Perspective, Car

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Teaching, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

  Gwen Ifill

  Optimistic, Views, Ideas

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor

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• The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.

  David Bornstein

  Freedom, Thinking, People

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

  Zachary Levi

  Reading, Littles, Household

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Years, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Use, Cash

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This will be a week that I change your sheets! Don't try to rest the same way you've rested in the past, for I AM remaking your bed to rest in. Know that I AM causing your house to be reordered and redirecting your steps. And because your bed is being made, stay focused and up with Me, until the breakthrough is seen in your life.

  Chuck Pierce

  Past, House, Trying

  FaceBook post by Chuck Pierce from Aug 05, 2015

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• That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Running, Acceptance, Reality

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• Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond the mind, you have entered the world of nirvana, you have entered the world of light and eternal life. You have attained to spiritual integrity, freedom, and tremendous ecstasy which the mind cannot even dream about.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Spiritual, Integrity

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• Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.

  Huntington Willard

  Cancer, Lying, Heart

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• Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.

  Nichelle Nichols

  Kings, Stars, Important

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• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Music, Mom, Mother

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.254, Macmillan

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• If you are predisposed to be patient, disciplined and psychologically appreciate the idea of buying bargains, then you're likely to be good at it. If you have a need for action, if you want to be involved in the new and exciting technological breakthroughs of our time, that's great, but you're not a value investor, and you shouldn't be one.

  Seth Klarman

  Ideas, Appreciate, Needs

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• If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

  Cynthia Tucker

  Change, Communication, Science

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• What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Order

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• Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Compassion, Expression, Empathy

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

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