Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
'Fare well!' 'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
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¿Quién escribe tu nombre con letras de humo entre las estrellas del sur?Ah déjame recordarte cómo eras entonces, cuando aún no existías.
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When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away.
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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
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'Fare well!' 'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
