Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do not have anything to fear now concerning internal wars or their neighbors invading France.
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Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
