Rene Descartes Quotes

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

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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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • World
  • Day
  • Better

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • You
  • Road
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
  • Victory
  • Strength
  • Greatest

• I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Mad

• 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.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • World
  • Want
  • Class

• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Question
  • Debate
  • Frames

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Water
  • Phone

• Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Fashion
  • Media
  • Influential

• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Gentle

• Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Organization

• Ah woe is me, through all my days Wisdom and wealth I both have got, And fame and name and great men's praise; But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

  

  H. C. Bunner
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth

• Relations between States and within States are correct to the extent that they respect the truth. When, instead, truth is violated, peace is threatened, law is endangered, then, as a logical consequence, forms of injustice are unleashed.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Respect

• The answers from Genesis tell us that there was no death, bloodshed, disease, or suffering before sin. All these things are a consequence of sin. That's why Christians can't believe in millions of years for the fossil record - it's a horrible record of death, disease, and suffering, which couldn't have happened in the Garden before Adam fell.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Death

• Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag,' she said.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Country
  • She

• All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Need
  • Say
  • Hear

• Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Power
  • True
  • Follow