- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others Quotes
Looking past yourself, in different ways.
Several of these others quotes come from performers describing why they act at all — to inhabit lives beyond their own rather than just their own experience. For a lighter comparative angle, see Like quotes.
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- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
- Chewed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like the brain consists of billions of highly connected neurons, a basic operating unit in a neural network is a neuron-like node. It takes input from other nodes and sends output to others.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020