Andrew Dickson White Quotes
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
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As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.
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The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.
