„True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does“
— Torquato Tasso Italian poet 1544 - 1595
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„Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.“
— John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
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„There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.“
— Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983
„Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.“
— D.H. Lawrence English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter 1885 - 1930
„I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.“
— Rosalía de Castro Galician poet, writer 1837 - 1885
„Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery“
— Kwame Nkrumah Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Ghana 1909 - 1972
Context: Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery.
Quoted in The Jewel of Africa, Vol. 1 (1968), p. 22.
„The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain“
— Jennifer Aniston television and film actress from the United States 1969
Oprah Magazine (2004)
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„Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.“
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popula... 1920 - 1992
„The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.“
— Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965
As quoted in Encounter with Martin Buber (1972) by Aubrey Hodes, p. 135
„Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
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„Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."“
— Ken Thompson American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating system 1943
„You know that episode where I said I'd stopped drinking? Well, I lied. Ted is so militant in his views. I lived with him for 12 days and it's hard to imagine ever doing anything that would truly look good in his eyes. Also he said some stuff online about Dimebag which I thought was really not cool. I'm not going to repeat it but you can check it out online.“
— Sebastian Bach Canadian singer 1968
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=60702 Blabbermouth.net (October 21, 2006)
„There is no point to be alive if you can't do deadlift.“
— Jón Páll Sigmarsson Icelandic strongman 1960 - 1993
As quoted in Dhani Jones, Jonathan Grotenstein, The Sportsman (2011), p. 169
Jones & Grotenstein comment that this quote refers to Sigmarsson's "ability to lift enormous weights off the ground. Jón Páll was only 32 when he died of a heart attack brought on by - you guessed it - a deadlift."
„I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
