Rene Descartes Quotes
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Quotes to Explore
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
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Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
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I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
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UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.
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Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.
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If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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Public opinion is the whore among opinions.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
