Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Peace is its own reward.
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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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.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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.
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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.
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Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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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.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
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One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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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.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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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.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
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Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
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Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
