Moses Mendelssohn Quotes
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.Moses Mendelssohn
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
Nadia Comaneci -
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks -
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden -
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
Edie Brickell -
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz -
We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
R. C. Sproul -
When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.
Nicki Minaj -
How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
Oscar Wilde -
My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.
Ben Affleck
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
Ariel Pink -
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
Abraham Lincoln -
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali -
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos -
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Olin Miller -
Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
William Goldman
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
James Cook -
Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.
William Shenstone -
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn