John Stuart Mill Quotes
If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Fandom is amazing.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!
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The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
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The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised.
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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
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Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
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Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.
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God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.
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Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
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It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.
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If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.
