David Hume Quotes
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.
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Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.
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Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. 'What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! FRY HER!! FRY HER!'
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God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
