David Hume Quotes
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Quotes to Explore
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. Soldiers, I bid you God-speed to your homes.
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'What’s Hell?' inquired Wild-Eye. 'You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman?'
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
