Oswald Spengler Quotes
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.
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The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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Yet look again - His horn is free,Rising above chain, fence, and tree,Free hymn of love; His hornBursts from his tranquil browLike a comet born;Cleaves like a galley's prowInto seas untorn;Springs like a lily, whiteFrom the Earth below;Spirals, a bird in flightTo a longed-for height;Or a fountain bright,Spurting to lightOf early morn - O luminous horn!
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The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars. The way the star moves around the center of the galaxy is very much like the way the planets orbit the sun.
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There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.
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We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
