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 like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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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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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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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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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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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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I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.
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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
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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.
