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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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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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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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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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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They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.
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One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.
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People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.
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Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, 'Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,-Sleep before Death.'
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I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
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I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental aspects of my work is for myself and the reader to see the world that they think they know in a different way.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
