Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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I've traveled around the world.
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The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
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The purely corporeal can be uncanny. Compare the way angels and devils are portrayed. So-called 'miracles' must be connected with this. A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.
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Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
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I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
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I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
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I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.
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I lived in a kind of dream of communism.
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
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A 'reptilian revolution' has the potential to reshape manufacturing. The 'snakebots' being developed at Carnegie Mellon University aren't just useful for surgical or search-and-rescue purposes. They could also usher in a new, more customized era of mass production.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
