"When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant."

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“Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.”
“one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women .”
“The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.”
“But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.”

Source : "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.
“I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.”
“All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.”
“Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.”
“I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me”

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