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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Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
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He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
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I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
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The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
