William James Quotes
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
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[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
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Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
