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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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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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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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
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The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
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The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she said they should sell something to the tourists and use the profits to help redecorate the White House. She decided to make a small book. It cost 42 cents and sold for a dollar. Over the years it has brought in $42 million.
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Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.
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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
