Bernhard von Cotta Quotes
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.
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People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
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It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you from what we cannot hold the stars are made.
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You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.
