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impossible-things intellectual merit
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once. Jorge Luis Borges
impossible-things rough knows
Impossible things are really rough to do, you know. Brandon Sanderson
impossible-things people attention
My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it. Arnold Schwarzenegger
impossible-things absurd mystic
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. Fernando Pessoa
impossible-things desire rising
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. George Saunders
impossible-things needs world
I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things. Buzz Aldrin
intellectual tragedy values
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him... Richard Hofstadter
intellectual filters would-be
If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. Umberto Eco
intellectual way intellect
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! William Wordsworth
intellectual film kung-fu
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. Werner Herzog
intellectual atheism matter
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages. Wendy Kaminer
intellectual disease
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. Robert M. Pirsig
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
intellectual important information
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money. Walter Wriston
intellectual investing climate
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. Joseph A. Schumpeter
merit debate
There's always merit to having a debate. Ward Churchill
merit fondness
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness. Samuel Johnson
merit sorts support
If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),
merit given concerned
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit. Epictetus
merit proud modesty
There is a proud modesty in merit. John Dryden
merit self-esteem wish
Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
merit ought players qualified record schools state time tournament virginia
As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.
merit plagiarism preservation
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. Benjamin Disraeli
merit affection
The more merit, the less affection. Baltasar Gracian