Alfred Polgar Quotes
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Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
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I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.
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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naivete of the mathematician himself.
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To some people fighting in itself is enjoyable, and she supposed that the fighters of this world can always get some sort of a kick out of things.
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I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
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But these thoughts broke apart in his head and were replaced by strange fragments: This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.
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With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from a third party. But you can't secure it from the party you are talking to if they forward your email; it doesn't matter how well your email is encrypted. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nick-szabo-quotes
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Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
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The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
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There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
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If I have to, I will. I'll do whatever the law (requires) me to do, but other than that, it's a waste of my time.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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What are you doing right now that requires faith?
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The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.