Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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I'm very excited. The 12-year-old me is kicking myself.
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He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
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We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.
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The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.
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Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
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It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
