Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Space

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
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• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
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• The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.

  

  Vannevar Bush
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• The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

  

  Aga Khan IV
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• Unfortunately, so far... a truly background independent formulation of string theory has not been achieved... It is often called the search for M theory...

  

  Lee Smolin
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• Myself, I try to search for the new way, always trying to set up a new possibility and to find the new tools to express myself. To reach a broader audience.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • Trying
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• It took two months from the day my fiance proposed to my first Google search for 'wedding planning: how?' Now, let me interrupt myself here and share how much I hate using the word 'fiance.' It's so fancy, and it's hard not to sound like a jerk saying it. Which is why I will be using my own word for fiance: gloob.

  

  Ellie Kemper
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• Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

  

  Ted Allen
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• I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.

  

  Anthony Doerr
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• I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.

  

  George C. Wolfe
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• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
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• Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

  

  Simon Van Booy
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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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