L. E. J. Brouwer Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.
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In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'
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What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
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I am wrapped in dismal thinking.
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Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
