Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Johann Georg Hamann
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
Dan Pink
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
Aaron Sorkin
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
Aberjhani
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Kara Walker
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
Claude Monet
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When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
James Norman Hall
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
Carl Sagan
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I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife.
Bill Atkinson
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I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.
Melonie Diaz
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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Johann Georg Hamann
