Primo Levi Quotes
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
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There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
