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For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.


Lawrence M. Krauss

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LAWRENCE WELK I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
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