Reggie Watts (Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts) Quotes
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!
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'Oh, I see,' said Jenny. 'But you're just getting these men New Age gurus to help you all feel better. I thought when you talked about helping people you meant other people. You know, like the blind.'Isn't everybody blind, in one way or another?' asked Wendy.
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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Ueberhaupt aber bin ich allmälig der Meinung geworden, daß der erwähnte Nutzen der Kathederphilosophie von dem Nachtheil überwogen werde, den die Philosophie als Profession der Philosophie als freier Wahrheitsforschung, oder die Philosophie im Auftrage der Regierung der Philosophie im Auftrage der Natur und der Menschheit bringt.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.
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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
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In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
