Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Quotes to Explore
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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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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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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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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
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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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Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
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For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
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I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
