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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I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
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Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.
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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
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When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for you to get out of the club. People are drunk or whatever and they'll let you have it.
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I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
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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.
