Niklas Luhmann Quotes
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
Niklas Luhmann
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
Ted Rall
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
Randy West
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
Vanessa Morgan
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
Gaby Hoffmann
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If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
Nancy Gibbs
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.
Ovid
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As I looked out on the crowd, I was witnessing things I had witnessed in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina or in squares in Belgrade… it breaks my heart when I see it in my country.
Chris Hedges
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The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
Niklas Luhmann