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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
"I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
"Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want."
"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."
"You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers."
"I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished."
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"
"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that."
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
"Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are."
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
"I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves."
"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."
"I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians."
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
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