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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I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.
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If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.
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Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
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We could tell them alien civilization things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.
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Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
