"The work of ***** degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat."

-- Primo Levi

#Degradation Quotes #Defeat Quotes #Conclusion Quotes

“The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.”

Source : "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.
“I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.”
“The Seydoux-Schlumberger industrial empire won't make $100 million movies. Hollywood does that much better. But you don't make movies because of their budgets, you make movies because you believe in them. Setting limits doesn't matter to me.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.”
“Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.”
“For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.”
“Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.”
“Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.”

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