Carl Menger Quotes
There is no better means of reducing a fallacious variety of thought to absurdity than to let it live itself out completely.
Quotes to Explore
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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For freedom's battle, once begun,Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,Though baffled oft, is ever won.
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If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
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… We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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There is no better means of reducing a fallacious variety of thought to absurdity than to let it live itself out completely.
