"Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone."

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Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412

Berthold Auerbach

#Belief Quotes #Firm Quotes

“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).”

Source : "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.
“Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition”
“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.”
“He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.”
“I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.”
“I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.”

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