Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
Eric Van Lustbader
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
Gavin Hood
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
Malala Yousafzai
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono
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To kill nothing, that is love.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
Brian Tracy
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
William Henry Harrison
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt
