Ernst Otto Fischer Quotes
Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
Ernst Otto Fischer
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
Plato
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
Plotinus
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When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
Adolf Hitler
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
Hannah Arendt
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
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Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband.
Jules Michelet
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A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.
Brad Alan Lewis
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We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
William Shakespeare
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Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
Ernst Otto Fischer