Erich Fried Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?
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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
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I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world.
