Cesare Lombroso Quotes
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
Cesare Lombroso
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He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.
Gabrielle Roy
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
Walter Benjamin
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'I learned a great deal,' said Beran. 'And then I lost all heart for further learning.'Palafox’s eyes glinted. 'Education is not achieved through the heart-it is a systematization of the mental processes.''But I am something other than a mental process,' said Beran. 'I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.'
Jack Vance
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Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Sam Harris
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I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
Christian Louboutin
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I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'
David Eigenberg
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I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.
Brendan Fraser
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
Edith Hamilton
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For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid.
Alan Alda
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
John Tillotson
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
Cesare Lombroso