Alfred Nobel Quotes
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
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A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).
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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
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We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.
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Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.
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When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
