Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Was nennen die Menschen am liebsten dumm? Das Gescheite, das sie nicht verstehen.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.
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When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
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Was nennen die Menschen am liebsten dumm? Das Gescheite, das sie nicht verstehen.
