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People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#chance #far #getting #got #how

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#been #believe #else #honest #i

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#big #big picture #come #comes #distance

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me. ↗

— Anna Nicole Smith

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#gun #justice #knife #long #man

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cannot #experiment #human #important #justifiable

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ancient #army #get #his #home

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture. ↗

— Peter Singer

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