David Hume Quotes
The conclusion of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession' shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
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In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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I believe that change keeps you young.
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If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.
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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I like to speak my mind.
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I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.
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The conclusion of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession' shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.
