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
  • Loves
  • 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
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• 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
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• 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
  • Forget
  • Dreams
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• Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Women
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• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Brain
  • Body
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• Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
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