Rene Descartes Quotes
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance.
Quotes to Explore
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
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I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.
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She is really nice and everything, but totally not made of awesome the way Issie is.
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
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Discovery is the joy.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance.
