"Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up."
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"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."
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"Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity."
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"I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative."
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"Parties are a cruel kind of fun."
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"Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities."
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"Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, “What kind of legacy will you leave?"
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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is."
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"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
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"Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary."
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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
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"People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass."
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"How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?"
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"I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time."
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"And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her."
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"Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps."
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"Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order."
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"I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity."
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"I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose."
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