"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.“
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"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies."
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"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
-Cher
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