Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.
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When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.
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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
