Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
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• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
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• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
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• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
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  • Place
  • Opera

• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Happy
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  • Be Happy

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

  Dan Millman
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• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
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• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • Ridley Scott

• When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
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• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Liberty

• Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Proud
  • Cool
  • Lose

• Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Security
  • Improving

• You are not lost. You never shall be lost.

  

  Christopher Logue
  • You
  • Never
  • Lost

• You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Prayer
  • Meaning

• Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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• We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • Thinkers