Helmut Schmidt Quotes

Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.

Helmut Schmidt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 23, 1918 - November 10, 2015

Topics

GreatMoreYearsAdultIdolBeen

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

Amy Tan

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Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Amory Lovins

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Simone Weil

BeautyPromisesNeverAnythingGives

The way that Soviet intelligence tried to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East is essential to understand the developments that led to the outbreak of the Six-Day War.

Ronen Bergman

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Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

Rumaan Alam

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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Martin Seligman

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Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

Julen Lopetegui

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I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

Josh Charles

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While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.

Dennis Moore

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For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.

Debra Granik

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For working-class families and small businesses... we have got to find ways to lower energy costs.

Chris Gibson

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