Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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I was checking this girl next doorWhen her parents went outShe phoned said hey boy, come on right aroundSo I knock at the doorYou was standing with a bottle of red wineReady to pourDressed in long black Satin and Lace to the floor
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In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
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I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.
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She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
