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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up."
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"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"
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"When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications."
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"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
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"Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it."
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"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
Society
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Creativity
"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
Learning
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
Wisdom
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Truth
"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."
Philosophy
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