Arthur Aron Quotes
There's this general craving-and-desire system that's engaged, only in this case the desire isn't for money or a drug or power or freedom. The desire is for merging with another person.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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I'm not a party person.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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Common sense is often underrated.
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He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
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There's this general craving-and-desire system that's engaged, only in this case the desire isn't for money or a drug or power or freedom. The desire is for merging with another person.
