Nikola Tesla Quotes
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
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She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
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What is the city but the people?
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An empty throne always tempts me.
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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
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All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
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There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
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[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.
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This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.
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Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
