Ernst Junger Quotes
We ourselves are the last to notice that we are not making any headway. It is brought to our notice from the outside; former students suddenly emerge as our superiors. As we grow older, the respect we receive diminishes: the disproportion between our age and our position becomes evident, first to other people and finally to ourselves. Then it is time to retreat.
Ernst Junger
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
G. Willow Wilson
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Bartlett Sher
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
Eduard Buchner
At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.
Karl Lagerfeld
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Tayari Jones
It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane
It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.
Carl I. Hagen
I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.
Carson Kressley
