"It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness."

-- Alexander Herzen

#Passion Quotes #Character Quotes #Self Quotes

“Early numbers are always wrong.”
“I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.”
“Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.”
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”

Source : Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.62, MIT Press
“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.”
“The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.”
“[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.”
“I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.”

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