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.Georg C. Lichtenberg
Quotes to Explore
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
Karen Horney -
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.
Olympia Dukakis -
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.
Sam Brownback -
The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
Oliver Tambo -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
Success is really about your mindset.
F. Gary Gray
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Cardinal Richelieu -
The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
Pam Bondi -
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.
Jack Welch -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Salman Khan
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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.
Mae Jemison -
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.
Octavio Paz -
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
Lars von Trier -
I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.
Lionel Trilling -
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn -
My parents kept me very grounded.
Danielle de Niese -
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Aristotle -
I was just e-mailing a few friends about events that were useful or fun and now my friends of 20 or more have become a mailing list of 7,500 people and a virtual community of at least 10,000 people.
Craig Newmark -
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Georg C. Lichtenberg