Rene Descartes Quotes
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Quotes to Explore
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.
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Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
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Whether it is sufficiently meeting systemic needs is largely left up to whether we trust the government.
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
