Leo Strauss Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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sub specie aeternitatis
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I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
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None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.
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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
