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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
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Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
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Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) -
First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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