Rene Descartes Quotes
If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.
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'It was an old passion,' he said. 'I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.''What is it like?' she asked.He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. 'An amputation,' he whispered.
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A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.
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Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
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Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
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If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.
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If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
