Rene Descartes Quotes
Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
E. P. Thompson
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
Patrick Lencioni
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
Irrfan Khan
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I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.
Ram Shriram
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I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
Bill Maher
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
Hank Williams
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
Leon Uris
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
T. S. Eliot
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I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.
Banksy
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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Lisa See
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
Oscar Wilde
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
Ariel Pink
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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
Kelly Clarkson
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It was such a blur. All we saw was that the shows were getting bigger. It's like people say, a lot of it is a timing thing. We came out at the right time.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.
Gary North
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Miguel de Unamuno
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You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
Lillian Russell
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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
William Shakespeare
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Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.
Rene Descartes