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mistake thinking vanity
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. David Remnick
mistake mean wish
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' David Hockney
mistake perspective world
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
mistake imagination philosopher
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. David Hume
mistake nice mind
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
mistake liars mean
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
mistake bottles actors
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. David Duchovny
mistake literature firsts
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. David Brin
mistake humble outsiders
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.
men clothes keys
We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly. David Walliams
men culture debt
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay. David Riesman
men frustrated jam
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
men class different
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
men pay commodity
I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes. David Ricardo
men opera roles
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. David Henry Hwang
men vanity missing
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. David Hewson
men israel racism
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame. David Horowitz
men ideas needs
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite David Hilbert
white swans black
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.
white vote
I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote. David Duke
white rights activist
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
white house democracy
The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves. David Brooks
white people
I don't sign for white people. Barry Bonds
white done realization
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement. Athol Fugard
white doubt shirts
Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts. Antonio Tabucchi
white work-out people
Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me. Diablo Cody
white want fluffy
I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies Derek Jarman