Georg Brandes Quotes
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
