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Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things”

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Rainer Maria Rilke

German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

“I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Helping Voice Forget Brain Picks Tricks Acquire Urges Destination Perfume Noisy

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“Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”

Hard Statesmanship

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!”

Country America Dangerous Adventure Ill Troops Betrayed Our Troops

Author:Al Gore

“The tree does not die, it waits.”

Doe Dies Waiting Tree

Author:Hermann Hesse

“It's always funny until the hooker mentions her son.”

Son

Author:Jon Stewart

“A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.”

Thinking Should Novel Reader Encounters

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done!”

Way Trying Done Humor Kids Funny Jobs Gun Right Way Spanking I Love My Kids Love My Kids

Author:Denis Leary

“The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.”

Awake Snaps

Author:Pico Iyer

“Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.”

Ifs Sometimes Stories Home Turns Next Findings Train Narrative Next Day Knots Subway

Author:Calvin Trillin

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