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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I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.
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While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will also go after people who interpret and believe the Muslim faith differently than they do.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
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You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
