A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
quote by Eriq La Salle
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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
quote by Vine Deloria
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In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
quote by Wim Wenders
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Who loses his honor loses a lot, who loses his faith, loses everything.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
quote by John Steinbeck
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If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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He who is judge between two friends, loses one of them.
He who is the judge between two friends loses one of them.
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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Dear Kathy Griffin
A public display of ambition
With no remorse or sense of taboo
Not ashamed to admit to an operation
You never know what she is say ‘bout you!
A woman filled with words of sin
A woman who knows life better than others
Almost killing herself to be thin
A life over shadowed by her own mother’s
A strong black woman
That’s what she is
A cunning woman
Who is immersed in show biz
(From A Letter To Justin Bieber's Hair by German Alcala)
poem by German Alcala
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Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
quote by Jesse James Garrett
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A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
quote by Delia Smith
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Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.
quote by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
quote by Jane Harman
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Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
quote by Kathryn Bigelow
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He who does not want to lend loses friends; he who lends gains enemies.
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
quote by Gijs de Vries
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