Albert Schweitzer Quotes
There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
Quotes to Explore
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
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There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
