Geoffrey Chew Quotes
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.
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Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.
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The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.
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There is a world of difference between the experience of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want to live.
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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I'm excited, but I am also realistic. I have seen what happened to the people who came before me and failed. It's an unforgiving arena to be in.
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Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
