Edmund Hlawka Quotes
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
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...like a predator about to devour the target.
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Be as much troubled by unjust praises, as by unjust slanders.
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Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
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We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.
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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
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No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
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I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
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I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
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Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
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What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.
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Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
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Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.
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Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
