Baron d'Holbach Quotes
We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.
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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
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I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
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Never lift. Never stop believing.
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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
