Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
