Antoine Arnauld Quotes
Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
Antoine Arnauld
Quotes to Explore
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
M.I.A.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
Callie Khouri
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman
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Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
Felix Frankfurter
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
H. L. Mencken
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
Bertrand Russell
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Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.
Carolina Herrera
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
Maria Sharapova
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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
Bahá'u'lláh
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We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
Boyd K. Packer
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Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
Antoine Arnauld
