Paul Klee Quotes
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
Quotes to Explore
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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To become a token woman-whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters-is to become something less than a man … since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.
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I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
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Mathematics is the music of reason.
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
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In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.
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Everyone has an opinion.
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I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.
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I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.
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The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
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The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
