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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?