Rene Descartes Quotes
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Quotes to Explore
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
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I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
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I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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I always said whoever brings Mexican food to New York would make a million dollars. Then Chipotle happened, which is fine.
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
