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The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished. — Elia Kazan
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e.,… — Karl Marx
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its… — Karl Marx
Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not… — Martin Heidegger
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral. — Immanuel Kant
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the… — Mitt Romney
It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look… — Miranda Kerr
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. — Neil Simon
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any… — Vaclav Havel
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the… — Wesley Clark
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains… — Margaret Fuller
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future,… — Theodore Sturgeon
But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to… — Sandra Cisneros
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we… — Saul Bellow
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.… — Malcolm X
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit… — Dale Carnegie
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them — Lars von Trier

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