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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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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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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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'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
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Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.
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Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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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.
