Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.
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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
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Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
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Pele played in an era which had so many great players and in that atmosphere he stood out above the others. He was the complete player in every aspect as well as being a kind human being. Cristiano Ronaldo is young yet, and has many years ahead of himself. But as of now, I do not see anyone who can compare with Pele.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
