Georges Canguilhem Quotes
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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The basic contentions of the argument of this book are implicit in its title and sub-title, namely, that reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.
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Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
