David Hume Quotes
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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My weight is this permanent topic that just doesn't fade away. Most days, I am fine with people talking about it. That doesn't bother me as much as how people use the fact to promote their own ventures.
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I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
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Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
