Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.
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You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
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I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?
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Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.
