Hermann Hesse Quotes
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment.
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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
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Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
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To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
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Well, I had the most appalling childhood.
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Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
