"They looked at the paper and saw nothing……" — Ivo Andric
"They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world."
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23 Quotes by Ivo Andric
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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman…
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Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man…
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than…
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
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What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
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Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and…
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There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
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Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he…
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Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond…
— Noam Chomsky
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.
— Mark Messier
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
— Karl Popper
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As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
— Anita Bryant
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And…
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has…
— Robert Burton
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Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human.…
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