Lactantius Quotes
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I have a passion for being around international cricketers. I love being in the dressing room and I love dealing with players at the highest level.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
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Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
