Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
Quotes to Explore
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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It was not an adventure; it was my life.
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
