Niklas Luhmann Quotes
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi
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To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!
Fernando Pessoa
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I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
Dane Cook
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If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.
Kate DiCamillo
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And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Don't do drugs.
Eminem
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I'll battle this bitter finale,Just me, my dignity and this guitar case.
Amy Winehouse
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On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.
Ara Parseghian
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Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
Jerry Pournelle
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery Brundage
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You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.
Bernhard Langer
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I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
Peter Capaldi
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Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.
Brooke Burke
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It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
William Glasser
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.
Niklas Luhmann