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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
"I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure."
"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."
"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
"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 can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create."
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing."
"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
"The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through."
"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually."
"Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries."
"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
"What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax."
"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."
"In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland."
"Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me."
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
"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."
"Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."
"I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving."
"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
"Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to."
"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
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