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Quotes by Austrian Authors
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
"I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine."
"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema ."
"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year."
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
"I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me."
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."
"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated."
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
"It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces."
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person."
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
"We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter."
"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."
"I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff."
"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."
"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."
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