Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Quotes to Explore
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
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The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.
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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
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Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
