Al-Farabi Quotes

A definition of philosophy and her sense consists in her assignment that it is a science about the being as a being.

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• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Fire
  • Nation
  • Islamic

• Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Progress

• None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Trust
  • Israel
  • U.S.

• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Sometimes
  • Mistakes
  • Medical

• There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Brain
  • Yourself
  • Gym

• Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

  

  Arthur Machen
  • Eyes

• Feminists are often asked whether pornography causes rape. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause pornography. Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated pornography; and pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Women

• Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

  

  David Neeleman

• I'm one of the best players in the world. I think I can be proud about this.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • World
  • Proud

• I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Man
  • Science
  • Universe

• A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

  

  Joel Hodgson
  • Science

• All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Body

• The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Choice
  • Human being
  • Forces

• A definition of philosophy and her sense consists in her assignment that it is a science about the being as a being.

  

  Al-Farabi
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