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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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
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I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.
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Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
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A lot of film acting is about being casual.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
