Seth Godin Quotes
Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
Seth Godin
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
Bette Midler
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She looks at me. She does. She.
Patrick Ness
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
Lorne Michaels
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The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.
Banksy
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Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
Paul Gauguin
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What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!
Joanne Rowling
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The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.
Elliott Sober
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How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?
W. G. Sebald
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I would never interrupt you," he told her. "I love it when you talk Sweetly to me.
Courtney Milan
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Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
Seth Godin
