Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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My philosophy is to be me.
Yohan Blake
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As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
Rachel Sklar
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
Hannes Alfven
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
Flip Wilson
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What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.
Vanessa Lachey
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers
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I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
Aaron Sanchez
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
Harri Holkeri
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
Gary Wright
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
Jack Nicklaus
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We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
Henry Paulson
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I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.
Tom Shadyac
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
Rumi
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I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
Gary Clark Jr.
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Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
Jonathan Swift