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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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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I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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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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God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
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You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
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As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
