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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Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
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I thank my dad for my mental longevity and for the fact we played against better competition.
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A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.
