Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
Quotes to Explore
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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My friends are my family.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
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In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
