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“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”
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“The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.”
Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William Lawrence Shirer, (p. 931), 1990.
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“My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.”
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“The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.”
Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
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“I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!”
Source : "Next Factor: 'Big Happy Family' Star Lauren London". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2011.
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“The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.”
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“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.”
Source : "Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.
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“Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.”
Source : "Writings on Physics and Philosophy" by Wolfgang Pauli, (p. 142), 1994.