Georg Simmel Quotes

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Georg Simmel

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

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• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

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• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
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  • Guy
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• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

  

  Earl Browder
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• Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Modern
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• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
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• Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

  

  Natan Sharansky
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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
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• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
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  • Next
  • Allow

• If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

  

  Hans Jonas
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• I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal.

  

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• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
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• Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Life
  • Time
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• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  

  Natasha Calis
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• Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Time
  • Men
  • Temptation