Robert Byron famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
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There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.
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I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.
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Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.
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All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
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The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.
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But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.
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All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.
-- Robert Byron
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason
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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
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Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
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The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
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