Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
Ice Cube -
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Joanne Rowling -
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nancy Kerrigan
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra -
If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
Macaulay Culkin -
The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
Pat Brown -
One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
Yair Lapid -
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
C. V. Raman -
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.
Laura Riding -
You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
Abbie Hoffman -
There is a great Man living in this country - a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives.
Arnold Schoenberg -
One form of math denial is the belief in the ability to make computers that prevent copyright infringement. Computers only ever work by making copies: restricting copying on the internet is like restricting wetness in water.
Cory Doctorow -
String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.
Edward Witten -
I’ve studied Jonestown, radical Islam. They’re oftentimes good-hearted people, idealistic, but full of a kind of crushing certainty that eliminates doubt.
Lawrence Wright
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In a single second we do away with all seconds; God himself could not do as much.
Emil Cioran -
A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.
Dalai Lama -
What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.
Nirmala Srivastava -
I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
Frances O'Grady -
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Berthold Auerbach