Egon Friedell Quotes
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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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.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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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.
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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.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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I have no literary fears.
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.
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Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.
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Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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.
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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
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Eldest thinks power is control, that the best way to be a leader is to force everyone into obedience. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to other so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. This is what I've been looking for since the first day I was told that I was born to lead this ship. Leading Godspeed has nothing to do with being better than everyone else, with commanding and forcing and manipulating. Eldest isn't a leader. He's a tyrant. A leader doesn't make pawns-he makes people.
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People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.
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With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.
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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
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Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
