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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes


Arthur Miller

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BEA ARTHUR My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
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