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I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

~Alan Ball

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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

~Alan Ball

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I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Amount Energy Hiking Love Museums One Thing Opera Play Sit The One Thing Thing Tremendous Tremendous Amount I Love

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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

~Alan Garner

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In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.

~Alan Kay

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Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

~Alan Moore

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My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

~Alan Patricof

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If SOPA were to pass, Imgur would not be able to exist. We survive on user-generated content. It would be impossible for us to police the amount of traffic we get for what is or isn't copyrighted material. It's just not possible.

~Alan Schaaf

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In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

~Alan Stern

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I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am I going to have a job this time next year?'

~Alastair Reynolds

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