Eduard Suess Quotes
We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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I can never wink at the audience.
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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?
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Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
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Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.
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Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the best time to invest? It's today, not tomorrow.
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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
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The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
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Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.
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I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
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So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing —Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.
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But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
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We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.
