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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Once more I hear the everlasting seaBreathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast
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Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
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Given the shrinking populations inside Europe and the waves of immigrants rolling in from Africa and the Middle and Near East, an Islamic Europe seems to be in the cards before the end of the century.
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I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people that really struck my heartstrings; 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' was one of those - maybe it was an accident.
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Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.
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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.
