Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I got a big mouth.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal (sic) which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.
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It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and day out watching the major TV networks or contemporary videos to have a Christian mind. This is always true of all Christians in every situation! A Biblical mental program cannot coexist with worldly programming.
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Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.
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I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. 'Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla' - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!
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The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.