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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#doing #help #men #permanently #should

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #cologne #first #germany #i

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#bring #brings #determined #happens #how

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. ↗

— James Ellroy

#biggest thrill #career #character #continue #determined

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#determination #discouragements #earth #face #father

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. ↗

— David Bohm

#each #etc #feelings #formal #generally

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#dramatically #effects #environment #however #i

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little. ↗

— Eminem

#ever #i #little #maybe #me

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#i #i believe #i believe that #kosovo #only