Rene Descartes Quotes
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.
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Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.
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They come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
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It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce...
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
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I can't explain why I play belter when I am down. It's the challenge I suppose.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
