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  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
  • My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
  • On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
  • Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
  • Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
  • There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
  • Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
  • The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
  • With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Brian Hwang A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
    Brian Hwang
     
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  • Alexis Carrel All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Benjamin Booker As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Martin Luther Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Addison Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Butler Yeats It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Roger Bacon Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Sigmund Freud A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Anna Louise Strong A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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