William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
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I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
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'I thought you understood,' he said. 'The world is your teacher. It will be all around you. The ocean and the wind and the stars and the moon will all teach you many things.'
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Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.
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I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
