Albert Einstein Quotes
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
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Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.
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One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
