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He who sleeps ___ a day has won ___ a life.
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Corruption is worse than ___. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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___: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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___ is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Karl Kraus?
→ What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
→ There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
→ A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
→ All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Pick the quote attributed to Karl Kraus.
→ Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
→ The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
→ Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
→ Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Select the quotation attributed to Karl Kraus.
→ There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
→ I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.
→ The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
→ It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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One of these may be attributed to Karl Kraus. Which one?
→ All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
→ The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
→ I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion well he leaves me cold.
→ Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Which one of these belongs to Karl Kraus?
→ Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
→ Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
→ For every laugh, there should be a tear.
→ Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Karl Kraus?
→ The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
→ Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
→ It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
→ Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Karl Kraus.
→ Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
→ The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
→ The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
→ A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Karl Kraus. Which one?
→ Don't forget that the bacteria watch us from the other end of the microscope.
→ The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
→ Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
→ The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Karl Kraus?
→ One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.
→ History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
→ Kindness goes a long ways lots o' times when it ought t' stay at home.
→ When someone has behaved like an animal, he says: "I'm only human!" But when he is treated like an animal, he says: "I'm human, too!"
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Karl Kraus.
→ The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
→ The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
→ The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
→ A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
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Looks like Karl Kraus is the author of one of these.
→ The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
→ He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
→ Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
→ The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Karl Kraus.
→ The town was so small, when I went to the public library there was a sign on the door that said: 'The book is out.'
→ There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
→ Scarcely anyone would have become a great actor if the public had been born without hands.
→ Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Which one should be attributed to Karl Kraus?
→ Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
→ Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
→ Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
→ Let language be the divining rod that finds sources of thought.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Karl Kraus?
→ Our hearts were drunk with a beauty. Our eyes could never see.
→ Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought a world empty of people just uninterrupted grass and a hare sitting up?
→ Scarcely anyone would have become a great actor if the public had been born without hands.
→ Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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