Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Quotes to Explore
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
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Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
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I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.
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Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.
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Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
