In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.


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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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Only a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former -...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst...
MARTIN SCORSESE
My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN
Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN
I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN
Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN
Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN
Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN
It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER