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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself."
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
"When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate."
"The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly."
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."
"If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well."
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."
"I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things."
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
"Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance."
"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'."
"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
"But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things."
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
"Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me."
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