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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#duty #just #just one #large #moral

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#directly #however #i #political #work

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#axioms #cover #deduction #empirical #facts

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#appearances #around #constantly #endorsing #fact

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. ↗

— Julie Walters

#elusive #i #i think #instinct #learn

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#contacts #cycling #france #i #keep

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#could #cross #did #effect #fact

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ↗

— Lewis Hine

#camera #could #i #if i could #need

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them. ↗

— Earl Hines

#before #chords #get #i #i think