David Hume Quotes
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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I've always had really messy hair.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
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American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Unstable conditionA symptom of lifeIn mental and environmental changeAtmospheric disturbanceThe feverish fluxOf human interface and interchange - Vital Signs (1981)
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I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.
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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
