Alexander Herzen Quotes
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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I don't know anything about music.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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If I could read your mind loveWhat a tale your thoughts could tellJust like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sellWhen you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be meBut heroes often failAnd you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..
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A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
