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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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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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.
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While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.
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I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.
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If I'm in the gym I'll stay for a while, and I'm not usually in a hurry to leave.
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I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa.
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The main reason why I would even potentially go to the NFL Draft is for my family.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.
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People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.
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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.
