Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I love 'The Bachelor!' Yeah, all people love 'The Bachelor.'
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When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.
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A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
