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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Sanitation is more important than Independence.
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Unjust force can never give any just dominion.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.
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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.
