- Georg William Friedrich Hegel
(08/27/1770 – 11/14/1831)
German philosopher
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"What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
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| "In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance." |  |
"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words."
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| "Don't worry me—I am an eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay." |
"All critics should be assassinated."
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"They couldn't pour piss out of a shoe if the instructions were written on the heel."
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"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
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"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."
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| "I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped." |  |
"Here stands before you a Negro woman, raised in Harlem, who went on to become a tennis player . . . and finally wind up being a world champion, in fact, the first black woman champion of this world."
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"It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into."
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"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
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