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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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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America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.
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You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
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The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
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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.
