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.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
Sam Heughan
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
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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.
Calvin Klein
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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.
Olivia Wilde
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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.
S. Jay Olshansky
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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.
Kate Brown
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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.
Larry Bird
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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.
Eddie Izzard
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Victoria Pendleton
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
Larry David
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
Desmond Tutu
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The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.
Ciputra
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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.
Ben Harper
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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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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.
Rachel Caine
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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.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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I wear black while suckers wear pink.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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I didn't mean to come here... And I didn't mean to stay... It's just where the sea wind blew me One accidental day...
Cressida Cowell
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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.
Rene Descartes