Egon Friedell Quotes
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
Egon Friedell
Quotes to Explore
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
Fetty Wap
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
Samuel P. Huntington
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
Fortune Feimster
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
Rick Pitino
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Epictetus
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
Isaac Newton
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A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.
Confucius
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I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
Michael Faraday
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Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.
Evalyn Walsh McLean
