what do you think about Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech?
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Harold Pinter's comment was perspicacious \nand bold, given the times.
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beautiful quote ther.
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Ever read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides? It's such a good book. If you haven't read it yet, you really should! \n\nFirst Sentence:\nOn the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide-it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese-the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope
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The book "the prince" which explored a new realism of absolute power and how benign  (or not) a ruler whould be. Some great quotes in there! The ends do justify the means!
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Did you know that Einstein, one of the greatest inventor and thinker of the modern history, was raised with Homeschooling?\n\nOne day little Einstein came home crying to his mother.\nHer mother asked what's wrong, and this is the exact words Einstein used: "My teacher told me I'm no good at anything. She told me I'm slow, don't have any talent and won't be successful in anything."\n\nHearing that, her mother decided to stop sending Einstein to school, and teach him by herself. The rest is history.\n\nYou will get many many comment on how is his/her social skill if he/she doesn't socialize. Well, I would ask them what kind of society you are talking about? The society that tells how inadequate you are? The society that tells you that you won't succed in anything?\nNo way I'm gonna send my kids to that.\n\nYou are doing a good thing. This way you get to pick what kind of socialization your kids are having. You get to pick the positive, affirming society that can tap your kids' potential to the max.\n\nI strongly suggest you read this book: \n"If you want to be rich and happy, Don't go to school", by Robert Kiyosaki.\nThis book will open your eyes on how our schooling system create loosers instead of winners. You will be happier not sending your kids to school.\n\nIf I have kids, I would do the same thing you do.
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<<The only positive results have come from adult stem cell research!>>\n\nAre you a Scientist? And why should I believe you and ignore numerous Nobel Laureates?\n\nThink twice, speak once.
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Congratulations, forever2004!  ~ I completely agree with him.\n\nThe following was my response to a question a while back:\n\n\nAbortion is murder.\n\nTwo wrongs do not make a right.\n\nDecisions are easier to make & to live by when one knows the difference between right & wrong.\n\nI was raped, and I became pregnant as a result, because I was unable to report the crime until days later. At that time I was pressured to "terminate" the pregnancy, to go get "cleaned up."\n\nI knew the difference between right & wrong.\n\nI chose not to kill - I could feel a living being inside my womb.\n\nI lost the man I loved & 35 piano students as a result, then lost my house, my cats, my baby grand piano & most of what I owned, and became homeless. I was homeless ten times that year.\n\nI lost my friends, and the respect and support of my family, because they believed I had made a bad decision.\n\nI was called various deeply derogatory names, & I was treated like a walking disease by people I had called my friends and by people I had never even met. Christian people refused to look me in the eye.\n\nI never wondered whether I had made the right decision, because I knew that abortion is murder.\n\nI was willing to go through whatever was in store for me & for us, because I knew no matter how rough it got, we would be O.K. somehow.\n\nI believed that if there really is a God, if I lived according to His rules, He would take care of us, whether it seemed possible or not. He promised, & I believed. That's called faith.\n\nWe now live 500 miles away from the place where I was raped. Two years ago, I bought a house. I have 24 piano students & my art & creative writing classes are never empty.\n\nI've regained more than I ever lost. I feel like Job, from the Bible.\n\nMy heart is never empty.\n\nI can sleep in my own skin on the quietest night. I can look in a mirror, and look myself in the eye.\n\nI've never been healthier or happier in my life.\n\nEvery time I look into the eyes of my beautiful, happy daughter, I thank God for her, and for the decision I made, based on what I knew in my heart to be true -\n\nAbortion is murder.\n\nTwo wrongs do not make a right.
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"I love the fact that this is quite obviously a clever joke and not everyone has got it. HE'S IN TWO MINDS AS TO SEEK HELP. COME ON PEOPLE! Pay attention!"\n\nI love the above quote.\n\nAll of the answers up to his were ironic and he didn't get it. Reminds me of someone I used to know, my secret friend, mini me!
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Well , it's some of my favourite collection of quote of well-known achievers.\n\n1) ' Life as if u to die tomorrow. Learn as if to live forever '.\n      - Mahathma Gandhi\n\n2) ' The forest is magnificent , yet it contains no perfect trees'.\n- Gye Fram\n\n3) ' A man without a purpose ia like a ship without a rudder.\n- Thomas Carlyle\n\n4) ' It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.\n- Brian Tracy\n\n5) ' Reach high , for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep , \n      for every drean proceeds the goals'.\n     - Ralph Vaull Star\n\n6) ' Even i don't reach all my goals , I've gone higher than i\n      would have if i hadn't set any'.\n      - Danielle Fotopoulos\n\n7) ' If u have a purpose in which you can believe , there's no end\n      to the amount of things you can accompolish'.\n      - Marian Anderson\n\n8) ' No set goal achieved satisfies.Success only breeds a new \n      goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless'.\n      - Bette Davis\n\n9) ' Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly  \n      willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve'.\n      - Denis Waitley\n\n10) ' Goals are dreams with deadlines'.\n- Diana Scharf Hunt\n\n11) ' A goal properly set is halfway reached.\n- Abraham Licoln\n\n12) ' A life is an experiment. The more experiments you make , take better.\n- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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I saw your invariantology site and I think you shouldn't give up on it. Seemed to me like a true work of philosophy, in fact, a work comparable to those of history's great philosophers, (maybe it's just that I haven't read that much lately), but your work is indeed good and original. Society needs new thoughts. Maybe now it won't be viewed as a huge thing, but maybe in the future it will be recgnized as great. Keep on working!\nAn advice: check on the grammar and spelling.\nI agree with simsjk!
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Entertaining and inspiring read, while perhaps not the work of genius that it has been called.\n\nWhat struck me as really weird: the intro to each chapter is made from quotes claiming how brilliant and extraordinary the author is. Kind of weird to put something like that in one's own book...
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This was a very enjoyable book, I first read it about 15 years ago.  It is semi-autobiographical in that the author is a pilot and the narrator of the book is a pilot who meets a man with an interesting insight into the human condition and who appears to be a messiah.\n\nThe book is full of memorable lines and makes the reader contemplate life and why we are here.  I definitely recommend it. \n\nThe following link has a number of quotes from the book.
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I think Jerry Lewis has done a great deal for the cause he supports...and he should be recognized for it.. but I don't know about  the Nobel peace  prize. but he wouldn't be a bad choice either......
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I do not beleive the speech is online. Read the Hornbook Magazine, it will have it. Check your public library for a copy.
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"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." ~Mark Twain\n\n"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little which one can be certain."  ~W. Somerset Maugham\n\n"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance."  ~Wil Durant\n\n"Courage means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."  ~ G. K. Chesterton
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I can not answer myself, but as it is a really interesting question I just googled-it... and found these two great links.\nThe first one is an article from the main page of the nobel.org: Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate\nby Øyvind Tønnesson,Nobel e-Museum Peace Editor, 1998-2000\n\nOf course may be is a lot of the story we'll never know!!
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Yes, I read it. Excellent book. Jon Krakauer, right?\n\nPlease write your own poem.