Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Bling is good.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
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If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.
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I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
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TSA needs to be totally changed. I would like them to be privatized.
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
