Albert Camus Quotes
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Quotes to Explore
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
John Moody -
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
