"The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action."

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Source : "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (pp. 139-140), 1906.

Otto Weininger

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“I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.”
“The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.”
“Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.”

Source : "A Reminiscence of Project Ozma". Cosmic Search Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1979.
“In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.”
“It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.”
“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.”
“I do not believe that God intended the study of theology to be dry and boring. Theology is the study of God and all his works! Theology is meant to be LIVED and PRAYED and SUNG! All of the great doctrinal writings of the Bible (such as Paul's epistle to the Romans) are full of praise to God and personal application to life.”

Source : Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.15, Zondervan
“What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.”

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