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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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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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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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Seven scores, seven scores, seven hundreds of saints, And seven thousands and seven ten scores, November a number implored, Though martyrs good they came.
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About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.
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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.
