Walter Benjamin Quotes
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
Imre Lakatos -
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Edmond Rostand -
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
Beatrice Wood -
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian -
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
Frances Farmer -
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
Ted Turner -
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Ian Somerhalder -
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
Faran Tahir -
The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
Barton Gellman -
There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Jacki Weaver -
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius -
I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
Warren Spector -
I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
Callie Khouri -
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke -
I don't see the point in working just to be working.
Abbie Cornish
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Hayao Miyazaki -
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
Uwe Boll -
I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
Nate Robinson -
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe -
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
John Maynard Keynes -
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin