Herbert Spencer Quotes
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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革命不是請客吃飯，不是做文章，不是繪畫繡花，不能那樣雅致，那樣從容不迫，文質彬彬，那樣溫良恭儉讓。革命是暴動，是一個階級推翻一個階級的暴烈的行動。
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Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
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Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war.
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Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?
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Shrine of the mighty! can it beThat this is all remains of thee?
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
