Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
