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If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: Different Doing Encounter Go Job Me People Possible Really Somewhere Then Views Willing

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Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.

~Cullen Bunn

Topics: Action Alien Amazing Balancing Brown Character Designs Encounter Extreme His Humor Just Master Races Some Technology Violence

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My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Away Beast Brother Brought Encounter Feeling Fiction First Had Home Included James Jungle Library Life Me My Life Public Public Library Science Science Fiction Seventeen Somewhat Story Strange Swept Which

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In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Angeles Animals Around Back Club Coming Coyote Drive Encounter Lean Los Los Angeles Something Sudden Very You

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One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: About Answers Critical Critical Thinking Deliberately Encounter Generate Grant Important Mathematical Most Numbers Permission Problems The Most Important Thinking Tools Wrong You Yourself

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We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Accepting Back Encounter Evaluate Everything False Information Need Realize Rejecting Step Take Time True Want You Your

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I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: About Basis Brain Bubbles Build Country Daily Daily Basis Democracy Distort Encounter Expert How Information Know Picture Reality Simple Something Works

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One big promise of the Internet was that it would be a great democratizing force, allowing us to become exposed to new ideas that we might not otherwise encounter in our town, workplace or social circle.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Allowing Become Big Circle Encounter Exposed Force Great Ideas Internet Might New New Ideas Otherwise Our Promise Social Town Us Workplace Would

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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Because Competence Encounter Exciting Government Most Rare Single Thing You

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You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

~Dar Williams

Topics: Almost Amongst Encounter Go Musicians Need People Rituals Song Sort Strange Superstition Through Write You

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