Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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Many states favor joint custody.
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History can never be covered up.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
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A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.
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In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.
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Go ahead, marry her. Don't marry her, man. How do you know where she's been? Huh! How do you know she's not the biggest fucking whore to ever walk this fucking town, man? I went with this one girl, she was such a fucking tramp, I had to double park my dick on her ass and wait an hour to get in. It's unfuckingbelievable, I'm telling ya.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
