"As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true."

-- Michel de Certeau

#Believe Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Etc Quotes

“On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.”
“Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?”

Source : "Smith's messy death eclipses her wacky life", www.today.com. February 23, 2007.
“Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.”
“When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.”
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”
“Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.”
“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”
“I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.”

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