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Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Health
  • Service
  • U.S.

• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Matter
  • Interest
  • Opinions

• As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Time
  • May
  • Knowledge

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Play
  • First
  • Guitar

• I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Sex

• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Age
  • Restaurant

• My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Head
  • Standing

• I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Got
  • Nephews
  • Nieces

• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Ridiculously

• The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

  

  Ed Case
  • Different
  • Country
  • Rest

• Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Water
  • Quality

• You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • World
  • Political
  • Action

• It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

  

  John Waters
  • Up
  • Parents
  • City

• God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • God
  • Matured
  • Testaments

• Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

  

  Carl Benjamin Boyer
  • Culture
  • Mathematics
  • Aspect

• Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.

  

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