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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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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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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I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, 'I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate,' and I said, 'But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!'
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When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
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When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.
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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
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As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
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I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
