Witold Gombrowicz Quotes

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

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• Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Nature
  • Clear Messages

• Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Environment
  • Generation
  • Scientists

• As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life

• I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Person
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  • Offseason

• A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.

  

  Gabi Hollows
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Party
  • Government
  • Chinese

• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Pictures
  • Effect
  • Merit

• I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Proud
  • Obsession
  • Arena

• What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dreams
  • Forget
  • Awake

• Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

  

  Muhammad Iqbal
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• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Kids
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  • Force

• 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Guitar

• Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
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