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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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.
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Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
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Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
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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.
