Leo Strauss Quotes
Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.
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I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.
