Daniel Dennett Quotes
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.
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I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.
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Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
