Walther Rathenau Quotes
There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
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Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.
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By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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People just want to know that they matter.
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There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.
