Etienne Gilson Quotes
He (E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that the best one can do is to recognize it when it is there.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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I can't work without music.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
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Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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Strive to be authentic, not perfect.
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He (E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that the best one can do is to recognize it when it is there.
