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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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"Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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"Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
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''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
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(mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) Hey... (cracks) You paid to see it... hey... Ever eaten a worm? (2nd fish) What? When did you eat a worm? Oh I was on the riverbank... catching my breath... - thank you, those of you who got that...
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.. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
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... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.PENN Address (2004) -
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
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A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
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A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
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A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
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A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
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