Benjamin Stillingfleet Quotes
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.
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Try not to miss me when I'm gone.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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I don't wanna be your part time lover I don't wanna play no silly games Oh don't tell me baby there's no other I don't wanna die in sweet, sweet flames I don't wanna be your part time lover I don't wanna play no silly games I don't wanna be your special brother Again, again, again.
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People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.
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Man, the creator of machines, is greater than the means of production. Man did not emerge from the process of evolution with the hammer, but with a distinctive brain. The human brain, itself a kind of “means of production” is more powerful than the most powerful machine.
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On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.
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I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.
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See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
