Colin Wilson Quotes
Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
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I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
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Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.
