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David Hume Quotes

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: July 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776

Topics

Happy Suits Circumstances More Suit

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

Fix Something Like Once Really

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Wrong Right Position Seek Highway

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

Life Work Light Perspective People

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Pride Discrimination Trying Find Us

I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn't have anything to write.

Love Friends Say Therapy Write Just

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

Learning Racism Example Would Argue

Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!

Great Motto Think New Healthy Size

You have to make a decision: Am gonna be the person that takes the risk? Am I gonna be the person that says I'm gonna start this business and I'm gonna follow through with it no matter what the obstacles?

Business Decision Obstacles Start

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

World Old Native Americans Return

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Jonathan Stroud

Things Happen Happen Nasty Ghost Who

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

Jonathan Franzen

Book First Second Some Ways About

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Life Love City Night Road Love Life

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