David Hume Quotes
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.
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Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
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Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.
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Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
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Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
