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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To be somebody, you must last.
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I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.
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Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?
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I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.
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For the late twentieth-century museum director there is no more certain prospect for audience acclaim and sponsor success than those Impressionist and Post-impressionist artists who were so reviled a century earlier
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
