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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Religious, Deeply

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Sometimes, Ability

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Ability, Creating

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
Michael Jordan

Life, Normal, Settled

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Noam Chomsky

Business, Different, Two

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama

Wife, Fact, Fame

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Rodney Dangerfield

Short, Fact, Knowing

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

Long, Him, Enough

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Trying, Challenge

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Good, Today

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
Ron White

Everything, Creative

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson

God, Him, Recluse

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James A. Baldwin

Thinking, Action, Balance

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori

Beauty, Science, Poetry

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Time, Help

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope

Men, Before, Dance

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas

Life, Another, Dead

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good, Person, Idea

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller

Family, Old, Memory

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
Donald Rumsfeld

May, Criticism, Publicity

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
Jennifer Aniston

Good, Reality, Writing

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence

True, Children, Parents

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men, Respect, Two

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Julie Andrews

Family, Great, History

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley

Talent, Genius, Mediocrity

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.
Susan Orlean

Books, Bankruptcy, Borders

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
Joni Mitchell

Work, Nature, Person

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin

Successful, Goal, Last

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt

Death, Stand, Himself

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