David Berlinski Quotes
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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As that the walls worn thin, permit the mindTo look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
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I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.
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If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.
