Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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My first vocation was dance.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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I always put my boxing first.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
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I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
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Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
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I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
