David Benatar Quotes
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.David Benatar
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
Fiona Shaw -
I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
Ian McKeever -
When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
Flume -
Only love is real...everything else is illusion
Carole King -
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.
Alan Alda -
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer -
I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.
Louise Rennison -
The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.
Hadewijch -
The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.
Barack Obama -
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Israel ben Eliezer
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
Bill Vaughan -
We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
Emilio Pucci -
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare -
The soul has words as petals.
Edmond Jabes -
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
Sigmund Freud
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This is a pivotal moment for our communities, our country and our future... This is the moment when we unmask those inequalities and injustices and chart a new path toward a more just nation.
Derrick Johnson -
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. Harvey -
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
David Benatar