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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."
"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."
"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted."
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."
"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."
"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."
"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
"The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem."
"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
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