Eric Mazur Quotes
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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'In my experience,' he said with more than a touch of bitterness, 'the gods do not seem to care much what their servants deserve-or at least the rewards they give are too subtle for my understanding.'
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The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
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'There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison.'
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Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.
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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
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Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
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Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.
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My biggest enemy is typically me.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.
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If you went on neglecting your own tastes like this, did you, in the end, cease to have any tastes? Cease, in fact, to be a person at all, and become merely a labour-saving gadget around the house?
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You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.
