Rene Descartes Quotes
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I just want to do my job.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
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You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
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We must do everything to ensure that the Euro 2016 is a success.
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Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.
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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
