Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Wayne Dyer
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
Jackie Collins
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Abraham Verghese
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
Jack Harbaugh
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
Natasha Lyonne
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
Questlove
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
Pasquier Quesnel
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
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I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
Tyson Chandler
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
Eileen Myles
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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.
Barack Obama
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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne
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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Frederick William Faber
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I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.
Alyson Noel
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
Friedrich Nietzsche