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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or w...

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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the chal...

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To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others....

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A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encour...

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Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each o...

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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, varie...

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Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't requi...

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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capac...

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I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

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…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge a...

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I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us w...

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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on...

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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...

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Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about ...

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You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creat...

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days ...

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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ide...

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Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness...

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I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some ...

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The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and ...

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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terroris...

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I li...

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No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, an...

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet ...

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My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the w...

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

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The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my riv...

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Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming...

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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University C...

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Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the sign...

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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of red...

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On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....

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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...

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People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously unders...

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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

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Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that ma...

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For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain ...

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The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but phys...

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does ...

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My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. ...

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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,...

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The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are...

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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in...

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Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed...

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It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out...

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I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and dominat...

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to c...

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Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...

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To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that co...

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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...

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Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial ed...

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Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to ...

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There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth ...

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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profo...

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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you d...

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to ...

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Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a...

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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever...

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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely on...

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Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to se...

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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to f...

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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...

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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a chall...

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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Live...

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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a chal...

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Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.

Every once in a while you need to challenge yourself and learn new things.

An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate ...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...

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I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot ...

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...

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I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the...

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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.