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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As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.
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Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
