Peter Abelard Quotes
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
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People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
