Quotes 61 till 80 of 92.
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The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
De slinger van Foucault (2007) -
The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
The Name of the Rose (2014) 527 -
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Travels in Hyperreality (2014) 133 -
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.
Jason Pontin (November 28, 2006). The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup). MIT Technology Review. Retrieved on 2007-11-15. -
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
On Literature (2005) 347 -
To survive, you must tell stories.
The Island of the Day Before (2006) 221 -
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
(2015) -
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
The Name of the Rose (2014) 120
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