Daphne Merkin Quotes
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
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There's no fear when you're having fun.
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My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.
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She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
