Georg Brandes Quotes
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation, guarantees for its independence and continued existence, special regulations to help its progress in culture, prosperity, and power, to build its society into a perfectly complete and harmoniously developed body politic, self-contained and independent.
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When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.
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Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
