Bradley Denton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
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Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
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Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
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In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
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Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
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