Pierre Bayle Quotes
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.
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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
