Edward Teller Quotes
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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I know that I'm here – I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.
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Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
