"You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East."

-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#East Quotes #Middle Quotes #Structure Quotes

“I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.”
“A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.”
“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”
“Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.”
“To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.”
“I am more faithful than I intended to be!”
“Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.”
“A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.”

Source : "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

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