Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Quotes
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.
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You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.
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Those whom we love are often the most alien to us.
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I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.
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There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
