Andrew Michael Ramsay famous quotes

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay

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Life is a race; desire the goal.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay

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Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay

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Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay

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The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay

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The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.