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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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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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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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
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When change is constant, learning is an essential survival skill.
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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
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I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
