Hans Jonas Quotes
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
