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George Berkeley Quotes

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

George Berkeley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: irish
Birth: March 12, 1685 - January 14, 1753

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Man Thought Hell Punishment Head

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

Art Ugly Happy People White Know

You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.

Life Fear People Comfort Zone You

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

Growth Sleep Play Know Cancer Role

I think that I do my best work when I'm most comfortable.

Work Best Think Comfortable Most

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Work Obsession Calling Demands Type

You have to be willing to totally immerse yourself in China in order to have in-depth exposure to China.

Yourself You Order China Willing

I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.

Love Wife Death Mean Ex-Wife I Love

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.

Yourself Trying You Perfect Loving

I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken up by that. I can't imagine it being taken up by a husband and children and writing, and everything getting its due. I don't believe there is room for all of it. I really don't.

Life Children Space Writing Believe

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

Brain Language Everything Just Would

Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda.

Lloyd Blankfein

Me You Places Tell Where Agenda

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Water Building Trees Reality House

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