Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
Quotes to Explore
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
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没有一个人民的军队，便没有人民的一切。
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
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The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
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There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.
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If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one's own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
