Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Author: Diane Ackerman

Author: Diane Ackerman

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…every feeling is the perception of a truth...

Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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You’re beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I’d be

Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this,

Author: Cynthia Patterson
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Every time I look at my wallet; I don’t care how much money is there, I just want to know, does it m

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Author: Leslie Stephen
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It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!

Author: Robin Jarvis
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I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong

Author: Vicki M. Taylor
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The Gospel is the throne of much more grace.

Author: Unknown
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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Author: Alice Sebold
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In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the wor

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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I live on remnants of dreams

Author: Khaled Ibrahim
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Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Author: Richard Dreyfuss
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It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to b

Author: Esther Dyson
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The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the

Author: Brian Moore
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[…] and the only reason he came out at all, during that period after he left Frankie, when he wanted

Author: Andrew Holleran
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Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It

Author: Matthew McConaughey
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Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imagin

Author: Sarah Perry
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...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can

Author: Gertrude Bell
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Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be

Author: Lee Child
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People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm

Author: Megan Chance
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Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

Author: Khaled Hosseini
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No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and

Author: Sarah MacLean
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I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

Author: Robert Jordan
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One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.

Author: Unknown
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I glance at him. He's looking at me, his expression every bit as expectant as I feel. I hate this li

Author: Anna Banks
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I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

Author: Nicolle Wallace
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Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can hap

Author: Julian Schwinger
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Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.

Author: Unknown
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...an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess’s nethe

Author: Fred Barnett
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And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom

Author: Jennifer Donnelly
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We have lived and loved together Through many changing years We have shared each other's gladness

Author: Charles Jefferys
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The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of soul

Author: Tony Kushner
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A man's weakness is a woman's beauty...a woman's weakness is falling in love.

Author: Jemina Akhtar
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Get your ego in check and half your battles in life will disappear.

Author: Mensah Oteh
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This is the only life I have to live.

Author: Unknown
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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge o

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

Author: Kentetsu Takamori
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Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that

Author: Rusty Blackwood
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Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills i

Author: Ayn Rand
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One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as

Author: Miriam Toews
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Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into

Author: G.K. Chesterton
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Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Author: Ayn Rand
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True Love never says good-bye, and this is why: True Love last forever.

Author: Ellen J. Barrier
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes bu

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
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The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure.

Author: Angelos Michalopoulos
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One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Author: Lee Smolin
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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

Author: Andy Warhol
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The one who made the Ford knew how to make it run. God made you and me, and He alone knows how to ru

Author: Billy Graham
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Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge do

Author: Gregory S. Prince
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My attitude will always be based on how you treat me.

Author: Hurbungs Pravinee
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brillia

Author: Walter Pater
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
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You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming toget

Author: Donna Tartt
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It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

Author: Dennis Adonis
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The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of

Author: James Fenton
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Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if oth

Author: John Mark Green
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Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to chang

Author: Eraldo Banovac
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The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure.

Author: Rabia Basri
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I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before

Author: Ashley D. Wallis
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Prayer should not be a structured and complicated conversation. It should be a simply and spontaneou

Author: Euginia Herlihy
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Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept th

Author: Ray Bradbury
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Do you ride?"She smiled, her fingers lightly sliding around his ear. "Not since I hit that barn"Zach

Author: Shelly Laurenston
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The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inex

Author: Lynn Schusterman
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Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Author: Allen Klein
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Our connections to the Oneness of the Universe/God are both physical/atomic matter and nonphysical s

Author: Russell Anthony Gibbs
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The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical ma

Author: Alexis Hall
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We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Ce

Author: Jennifer Connelly
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Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the mo

Author: Spencer W. Kimball
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My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you left, I

Author: Alexandra Bracken
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If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly

Author: Ross Turner
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Author: Sue Monk Kidd
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My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or su

Author: Dawn French
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We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

Author: John Christopher
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The more you resist, the stronger you get.

Author: Rohan B. Rebello
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As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.

Author: Candace Bushnell
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Change is what people fear most.

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav

Author: Julian Assange
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig

Author: Margaret Atwood
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No one will share your dreams until they come to reality let desire remain effervescent and never de

Author: ETC Wanyanwu
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There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is

Author: Jordan Bridges
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Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can g

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believ

Author: Rodolfo Costa
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To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and you

Author: Jennifer Sodini
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Even in solitude,silence stays,like a loyal supporter,with its unbroken presence.

Author: Santosh Lamichhane
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Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writ

Author: Michael Morpurgo
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in

Author: Jimmy Carter
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That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.

Author: Simon Zingerman
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A good friend enjoys with you, a best friend cries with you.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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If you love someone so much and they love you as the same dont let go of them fite for them showem h

Author: Mike Radcliff Jr
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To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything.

Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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True affluence is not needing anything.

Author: Gary Snyder
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Empires come and go. Chanterelles are timeless

Author: Sylvain de Ville-Amois
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They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert y

Author: Rasheed Ogunlaru
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I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets

Author: Walter Dean Myers
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There’s nothing more uplifting like the joy of waking up every morning knowing your family is safe f

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa