Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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I got discovered off of YouTube.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral I'm my only friend of mine And love is just a piece of time in the world in the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again.
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Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has.
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We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.
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I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.
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The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.
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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
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The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
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When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
