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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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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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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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 really believe that anybody on the Left or the Right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they're stretching Scripture.
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For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
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I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.
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As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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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.
