Hans Jonas Quotes
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.
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When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.