Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.
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I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...
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'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
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As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.
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If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.
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I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.
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Aphorisms (1905).
