Nicolas Malebranche Quotes
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
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There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.
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Thank you all very much for coming out today.
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Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to … juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear … Mother Goose rhymes.
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I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.
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I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
