Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• Great men marry great women.

  

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• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

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• I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.

  

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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

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• I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

  

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• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

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• I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

  

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• Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

  

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• I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

  

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• I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.

  

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• It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

  

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• They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

  

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• I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

  

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• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

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• I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

  

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• I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.

  

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• I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

  

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• Then speaking of his loosely figurative work of the 1930's, in Germany I was still under nature, not that I was imitating it; now 1957 I am above nature. But everything comes from nature, I too am part of nature; my memory comes from nature, too.

  

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• And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.

  

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• The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.

  

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• Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

  

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• I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

  

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• Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg