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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You're not sick you're just in love.
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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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When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'
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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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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
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She claimed that she was in the service of the workers, and yet, from her room in a house full of books and with a view of the sea, she wanted to command you, she wanted to tell you what you should do with your work, she decided for you, she had the solution ready even if you ended up in the street.
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If you really don’t enjoy the type of music I make and that’s not you, OK. But don’t say I’m not talented. If you haven’t noticed, I wasn’t made - I was found.
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When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?