Georg Brandes Quotes
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.Georg Brandes
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
Gary Wolf
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
Patrick Fischler -
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
Gail Porter -
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
Adam Beach -
Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
Naftali Bennett -
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Vernor Vinge -
The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
Maddie Ziegler -
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz -
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
Abdoulaye Wade -
It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
Gary Carter -
I think that I've had a very strange life.
Joanne Rowling -
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
Abby Wambach -
They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
Don Rickles -
Whole communities have been devastated as good-paying jobs continue to leave the U.S.
Kevin Brady -
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.
Georg Brandes