Max Ernst Quotes
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
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I, on the other hand, deny that the Constitution guarantees the right to hold property in man, and believe that the way to abolish slavery in America is to vote such men into power as well use their powers for the abolition of slavery. This is the issue plainly stated, and you shall judge between us.
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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
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I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.
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I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.
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