Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.
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We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people.
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The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.
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Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
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It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
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You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
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You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
