Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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It was a little skirmish across a century.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
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For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
