James Stephens Quotes
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
Haile Selassie
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A.
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I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.
Kristin Cast
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I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.
Nicki Minaj
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens