Rudolf Christoph Eucken Quotes
The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.
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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
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Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.
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The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
