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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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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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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If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.
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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.
