"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."

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"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."

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"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."

Fritz Kreisler, Austrian Composer

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

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"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."

Dwight Schultz, American Actor

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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with."

Alan Davies, British Actor

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"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."

Jean Racine, French Dramatist

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"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."

Rutger Hauer, Dutch Actor

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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."

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"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."

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"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."

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"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."

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"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."

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"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half."

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"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital."

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"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."

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"At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere."

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"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."

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