Raymond Smullyan Quotes

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

Raymond Smullyan

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• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

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• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

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• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  

  Man Ray
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• I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

  

  Gavin Andresen
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• That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

  

  Tahj Mowry
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• I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

  

  Jack Ma
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• Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Power
  • Cinema
  • Improvisational

• My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Dad
  • Knows
  • General

• There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
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  • Video

• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

  

  Doris Day
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• There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

  

  Sara Coleridge
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  • Christmas
  • Winter

• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Winning
  • Military

• I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.

  

  Dolly Parton
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  • Kind
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• Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Hope
  • Problem
  • Destroy

• I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Problem
  • Wanted
  • Meaningful

• I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Party
  • Problem
  • Demanding

• Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • Problem
  • Confusion
  • Metaphysical