David Hume Quotes
The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same … In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
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I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.
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The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same … In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.
