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Karel Capek Quotes

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

Karel Capek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938

Topics

Age Great World Flame End Stand

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Joan Halifax

Good Health Compassion Suffering Why

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Life Future Happiness Man Infinite

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

John Crowe Ransom

Poetry Stand Up Stand New Up How

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.

Megan Smith

Money Smart Door You Early Way

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Michael Gove

Learning Children Culture Empathy

I'm not getting dressed to make a scene or, like, 'Oh, look what Westbrook has on today!' If I like something, I'll put it on. I go to the game. That's how it is.

Russell Westbrook

Today Game Look Dressed Go Like

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Milton Friedman

Experience Test Comparison Only

We live in an experience-hungry society with advanced event technology and broad social reach at our fingertips. These external factors offers an ideal environment for organizers to create a connection with a broader set of people and maximize each interaction with their audience.

Julia Hartz

Live Technology People Society Reach

I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.

Josh Segarra

Spiritual Listening Grow Singer Up

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

Jordan Bridges

People Think Feel Photography Acting

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Diane von Furstenberg

Marriage Girl Fairy Tale Over Fairy

In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.

Chelsea Manning

Experience Intelligence Pool My Own