Anne Douglas Sedgwick Quotes
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Vachel Lindsay
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
Nate Lowman
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.
Andrew Breitbart
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."
John Backus
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The language of truth is simple.
Euripides
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I would rather create a precedent than find one.
William O. Douglas
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
Michael Douglas
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
Gabriel Marcel
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Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
Antonio Damasio
