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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles."
"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"
"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
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