Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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The Olympics is a daunting thing. We have to face the fact that (by doing it this way) we'll cut our players short a little bit.
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I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
