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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

Truth People Believe Obscure Delight

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

Life Man Story Living Bloom Never

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

Heart Stress Believe Think You

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.

Mother Pig Make Ear Moved Died

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

Mary Stuart Masterson

Love Attention Center Being Film

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

Michelle Williams

Home Live Drawing Down Wall Kind

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

Time Woman Care She Attractive Only

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.

Life Myself Me Place Play Explore

As we were developing 'Umbral', and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. 'Wasteland' is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas 'Umbral' is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!

Antony Johnston

People Believe Be True New True Out

At the end of the day, you can't take my love for my people away.

Love Day People End Of The Day End

Southern women always know how to make you feel welcome, loved and admired, even when we're talkin' smack!

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Women Welcome Loved Feel You Know

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

Class Working Criminal Working Class

Rather than making loose and unsubstantiated claims that Obama and Clinton created ISIS, it would behoove Trump if he advanced some real policy ideas about how to solve the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars. Of course, to do that he would have to get beyond the inflammatory slogans and sound bites that have characterized his campaign.

Ideas Beyond Sound Real Policy Get

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