Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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As a kid, I was super skinny.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
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As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
