Every positive value has its price in negative terms... The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pablo Picasso

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Topic

Pros and cons Yin and yang

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Language

French

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

Spain Europe

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Citation

Picasso, Pablo. Quoted in Life with Picasso, written by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. McGraw-Hill, 1964, pt. 2.

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People, people who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world.

Barbra Streisand

People

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Needing another person Interconnectedness of all people
Speaker
Barbra Streisand
Source
People
Medium
Song
Genre
Pop music
Language
English
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Merrill, Bob. "People." Funny Girl. Composed by Jule Styne. 1964, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

Another quote about Yin and yang

There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.

Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy

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Topic
Yin and yang Melancholy

Author

Thomas Hood
Source
Ode to Melancholy
Language
English
Time
1827 1820s 19th century
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Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

Another quote originally in French

What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worn, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Topic
Duality of man Nature of man

Author

Blaise Pascal
Source
Pensées
Medium
Epigram
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1670 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 4.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 4.