Maimonides Quotes
The Torah sage ... does not encroach upon another's occupation, nor does he ever cause someone discomfort. The rule is that he should be among the pursued and not the pursuers, among those who accept humiliation but not among those who humiliate others.
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Taxes suck. They really stink.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.
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I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
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Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.
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The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.
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Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.
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The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.
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The Torah sage ... does not encroach upon another's occupation, nor does he ever cause someone discomfort. The rule is that he should be among the pursued and not the pursuers, among those who accept humiliation but not among those who humiliate others.
