Rene Descartes Quotes
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.
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I was in the underground until I left Germany.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
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Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"
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Everything is self-evident.
