Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.
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Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
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You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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I think that every single person should play sports.
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[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.
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God ever arithmetizes.
