Democritus Quotes
And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
Democritus
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
Bear Grylls
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
Wale
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
Usher
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
Kate Bush
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
Lacey Schwimmer
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
P. T. Barnum
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Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.
J. M. Coetzee
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
Bob Dylan
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His real wife, his houri, his paramour was everywhere waiting, genie-like, in a bottle. The hymeneal gouging-off of the bottle-top, the kiss of the brown bitter yeasty flow, the euphoria far beyond the release of detumescence.
Anthony Burgess
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Despite that it's 'Star Wars' and how huge it is, it's still work to me, and that element of things grounds you, especially from nerding out a few times. Although, some days I can't control myself.
John Boyega
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You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.
Jamie Lynn Spears
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I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
Jon Ronson
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True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.
Democritus
