Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Quotes to Explore
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
