Rene Descartes Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel - farewell! farewell!
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Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.
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Science is practical philosophy.
