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• ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Feelings

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• Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

  Amanda Schull

  Mistake, Philosophy, Medicine

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• Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?

  Remy de Gourmont

  Mean, Lust, Add

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• Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

  George Jones

  Philosophy, People, Way

  Song: Wrong's What I Do Best

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• The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Recovery, Loss, Choices

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• [T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Ambition, Math, Branches

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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  Jean O'Leary

  Hiv, Stories, Disease

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• I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Responsibility, Government, Office

  "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Years, Eight, People

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• The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Prisms, Essays

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• I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

  Donald Kagan

  Historian, Ought, Asks

  "On Learning from the Greeks". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2005.

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• Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

  Donald Kagan

  Taken, People, Way

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

  Hoda Kotb

  Mom, Brother, Moving

  "Hoda Kotb on her mom hero". www.today.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

  John Kricfalusi

  Illustration, Style, Generic

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• If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Risk, Culture, Littles

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• I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

  Keira Knightley

  Opinion, Film, Difficult

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• I think you have different soulmates throughout your life.

  Kim Kardashian

  Soulmate, Thinking

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• I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

  Lil' Kim

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Interview: the wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

  Miranda Kerr

  Thinking, Quality, Needs

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• I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

  Monica Keena

  Character, Stuff, Concentrating

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• I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

  Monica Keena

  Nice, People, Age

  "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

  Nicole Kidman

  Thinking, Careers, Persons

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 02, 2016

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• I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

  Riley Keough

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way - especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them.

  Rob Kardashian

  Men, Mind, Dresses

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors make choices for different reasons.

  Stacy Keach

  Choices, Actors, Reason

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