John Searle Quotes
The sense in which an automatic door 'understands instructions' from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
Nancy Pelosi
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
Naval Ravikant
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
Taya Kyle
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
Ted Cruz
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
Wallace Shawn
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
Sam Wyly
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I owe it all to Jesus.
Aaron Neville
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold Wilson
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
Sam Hunt
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Saint Basil
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier
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There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.
Kim Cattrall
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
G. Willow Wilson
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
Irvine Welsh
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The sense in which an automatic door 'understands instructions' from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
John Searle