Karl Kraus Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
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Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
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Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
