David Hume Quotes

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.

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• Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Worry

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Classes
  • Accent

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Small
  • Single

• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Best

• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Change
  • Car
  • Oil

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Crazy
  • Decision

• People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

  

  Jenna McCarthy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• I want my personal life to be personal.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Life

• The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.

  

  David Hume
  • Great
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