Georges Canguilhem Quotes
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
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Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
