Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
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Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
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Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
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That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
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No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
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To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
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I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'
