Maimonides Quotes
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
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It is curious to observe how little one period resembles another. Centuries are the children of one mighty family, but here is no family-likeness between them.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
