Nicolas Malebranche Quotes
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main – spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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The result of the cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
