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“A career is born in public - talent in privacy.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”
— Voltaire
“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.”
— Heraclitus
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
— Victor Hugo
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
— Jane Austen
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
— Sigmund Freud
“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'”
— Linus Torvalds
“With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.”
— Dalai Lama
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
— Jane Austen
“We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.”
— Douglas Coupland
“It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”
— Heraclitus
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
— Blaise Pascal
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
— Adam Smith
“The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.”
— Gloria Steinem
“The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.”
— Richard Dawkins
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.”
— Tom Stoppard
“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
— Socrates
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
— Albert Einstein