William of Occam Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
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You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
