Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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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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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
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I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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Almost everyone wears rubber on their feet these days, but there was a time when it was considered cheap. Luxury shoes had leather soles, which were rigid and heavy.
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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
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I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
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Philosophy of religion … really amounts to … philosophizing on certain favorite assumptions that are not confirmed at all.
