Rene Descartes Quotes
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.Rene Descartes
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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 -
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 -
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
Aaron Neville -
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 -
Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
Wayne Knight -
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
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I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
Warren Littlefield -
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
Imelda May -
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 -
He who frames the question wins the debate.
Randall Terry -
Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
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
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
Oscar de la Renta -
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Carl Sandburg -
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 -
No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
Barack Obama -
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde -
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
Alastair Reynolds -
It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
Andre Rieu -
It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.
C. J. Anderson -
Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
Andrew Tobias -
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. -
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes