David Hume Quotes
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
David Hume
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In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
Lady Gaga
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Kailash Satyarthi
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Natalie Portman
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
Tavis Smiley
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Abu Bakr
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
Larry J. Sabato
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
Yvonne Strahovski
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My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
Naveen Jain
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
Frank Lampard
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.
Said Nursi
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A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.
A. E. Housman
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We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.
Ann McLane Kuster
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
David Hume
