Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.
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The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
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I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.
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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
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Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.
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Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the world’s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
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His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.
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It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
