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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Arguments
  • Vulgar
  • Convincing

• The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Science

• People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• ...the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace

• Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Success

• But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Alike
  • Monkey
  • Derived

• I like intellectual journeys.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Up

• I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

  

  David Guetta
  • Money
  • Sales

• I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Society
  • Feminist

• It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Work
  • Home
  • High

• I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

  

  Jim Webb
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Different
  • May
  • Character

• When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • World
  • Band
  • Rest

• I think I am the most dominant superstar in WWE.

  

  Jinder Mahal

• Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Strange
  • Speech
  • Arguments

• Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Marriage
  • Behavior
  • Reasons

• I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Littles
  • Fiction
  • Buttons

• There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Real
  • Identity
  • Gun

• If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Change
  • Engagement
  • Recruiting

• Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

  

  Plato
  • Arguments
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