Daniel Dennett Quotes

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

Daniel Dennett

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I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.

John Hickenlooper

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

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Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

John Updike

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While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look.

Stephane Rolland

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Roland Barthes

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I have scored against every team, every country, every defender in the world.

Romario

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When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

Rosemary Mahoney

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The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

Michael Owen

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Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Jonathan Shapiro

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If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

Jonathan Carroll

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I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

Jonathan Hickman

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