Berthold Auerbach Quotes
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
Samira Wiley
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
Rafe Spall
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
Adam Clayton U2
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
Harold Feinstein
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
Wang Leehom
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
Yani Tseng
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
Laura Hillenbrand
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With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
Oliver Sacks
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
Walter Raleigh
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The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
Michael K. Williams
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There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.
Richard Preston
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
Zach Anner
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I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
P. D. James
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach