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.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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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.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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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.
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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.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
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Failure is success in progress.
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Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.
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America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.
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I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
