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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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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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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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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Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."
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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
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Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
