Cesare Lombroso Quotes
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It demonstrates how it can say certain things about your culture and your society.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Everything that changes, where it changes, leaves behind it an abyss.
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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
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There’s a sense amongst liberals — who read identity politics into most everything — that conservative women are somehow traitors to their gender (much the same way that black conservatives are traitors to their race and young conservatives are traitors to their generation). To be a conservative woman in the 21st century is to be...ripe for scorn and ridicule by the demonstrably intolerant left.
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
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Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.
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When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
