Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
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The second element in absolute faith is the dependence of the experience of nonbeing on the experience on being and the dependence of the experience of meaninglessness on the experience of meaning. even in the state of despair one has enough being to make despair possible.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
