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“Touching people is very rewarding to me.”
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“Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.”
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“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
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“Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.”
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“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”
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“You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.”
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“If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.”
Source : Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.18, A&C Black
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“Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.”
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“If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.”
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“economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.”
Source : "Metaphysics, Morals and Science" (1962)