Rene Descartes Quotes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650

Topics

ScienceProblemsProblemRuleOther

You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.

Jodhi May

LifeFateEndYouKindLiving

I've been collecting comics since I was 10 years old. One of the first books I ever got my hands on was a Captain America-Falcon team-up.

Joe Russo

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I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

Matthew Scully

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

MarriageSunsetHappyHappy Marriage

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Ann Leckie

SciencePerceptionScience Fiction

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

Miguel Nicolelis

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As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.

Juan Williams

MoneyInternetPoliticalFinish Line

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.

Doug Liman

PeopleSucceedYouBegetsChances

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Archie Panjabi

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I've never looked at myself and thought, 'Oh yeah, I'm sexy'. I've felt sexy and confident, but I don't look at myself that way.

Ashlee Simpson

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I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

Woody Harrelson

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I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

Pranab Mukherjee

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