“Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?”
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Inspired Quotes — page 142 of 313
“One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.”
“If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.”
“Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand”
“The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability”
“There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.”
“Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.”
“I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.”
“Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
“Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!”
“Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale”
“You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.”
“Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.”
“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.”
“I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.”
“If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.”
“On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.”
“If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.”
“American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.”
“Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.”