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• To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

  Michael Caine

  Alternatives, Growing, Best Things

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• There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.

  Astra Taylor

  Issues, Long Ago, Too Much

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

  Daniel Dennett

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

  Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.56, Penguin

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• Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Sharks, Years

  "The Deadliest Animal in the World" by Bill Gates, www.gatesnotes.com. April 25, 2014.

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• I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and men in general - may not be interested in men sexually.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sex, Husband, Real

  "I Think She's in Love". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. February 2, 2016.

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• Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Confused, Army, Men

  "The Age of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 8), 2002.

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• Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently.

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Artist, Trying

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• If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talking, Enjoy, Stills

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• I'm actually excited about being in my 40s. I mean, that's ironic considering the show I'm on, but I have never felt like I need to feel or look the same as when I was 20.

  Sutton Foster

  Mean, Ironic, Needs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of.

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Winning, Games

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Eight, Eagles

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• Four years that the [Barack] Obama Justice Department... There were 100 ostensible cases, allegations. No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, allegations of torture, all this garbage that left was putting out, and the Obama Justice Department took four years considering those cases.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Iraq, Mass Destruction, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

  Kevin Russo

  Photography, Spiritual, Light

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• Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stars, Kids, School

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• While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Tea, Helping

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

  Chris Hayes

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

  Paul Zindel

  Sex, Quality, Pairs

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• We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Struggle, Ordinary

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

  John Cleese

  Intelligent, Creative, Trying

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• It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

  John A. Macdonald

  Independent, People, House

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• If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

  William Penn

  Compassion, May, Ends

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

  Teri Polo

  Able, Married, Lost

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• I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Thinking, Space

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• Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Honesty, Bisexual

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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• I’ve known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember. I know it troubles many people for me to refer to myself as a lesbian considering I have a male partner. I think they gather that it trivializes the plight of the LGBTQIA community & although that couldn’t be further from the truth at this point in my life I’m trying to steer as far from labeling as possible. Compartmentalizing myself only leads to condemnation & contradiction. I’m happier being fluid and I’m happier being honest.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Reign's Caitlin Stasey on Religion, Sexuality, and Reproductive Rights" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. January 12, 2015.

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