Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.Georg C. Lichtenberg
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
Jack Keane -
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Tabitha Soren -
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
Patricia Hewitt
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy -
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen -
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K. A. Applegate -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
Victoria de los Angeles
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
Magnus Scheving -
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
Beatrice Wood -
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T. E. Lawrence -
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Patrick Carman -
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
Gavin Newsom -
Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.
Leo Varadkar -
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Seth Lloyd -
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
Gary Speed -
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
William Hazlitt -
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg