Karl Deutsch Quotes

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

Karl Deutsch

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• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Me
  • Painting

• Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Time
  • Government
  • Nation

• Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie

• I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mean

• Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Definitions

• She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

  

  C.E. Murphy
  • She

• Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Powerful

• Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Life
  • Biscuits
  • Flat

• the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Animal
  • Disease
  • Funny Inspirational

• Even the poor should give something to charity.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Charity

• Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Truths
  • Religions
  • Rivers

• The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Scientist
  • Rival
  • Theist

• I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Understanding
  • I Believe
  • Nations

• The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.

  

  Burhan Ghalioun
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Nations

• 'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is the same.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Instruments
  • Range
  • Thrones

• A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

  

  Karl Deutsch
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