Thing Quotes
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It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.
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It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
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The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
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I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?
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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.
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That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.
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I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.
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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
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The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
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A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let’s say it is!
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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
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The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way.
