Johann Heinrich Lambert Quotes
But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
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The six types of song that have shaped human nature-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs-I've come to think are obvious...
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O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!
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I have never met a man like my father. He is so mad, terrible and vehement at the same time. Because of him, I never knew anything other than passion. When I began to meet other people I saw that it wasn’t normal.
Nastassja Kinski -
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?
