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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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
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I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
