Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No gentleman ever has any money.
Oscar Wilde
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
P. J. O'Rourke
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
Warren Farrell
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren
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Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routine… The bedrock of every religion, that your God is a promise, never to be encountered in this life, this universe.
Peter F. Hamilton
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I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.
Vinnie Jones
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Mindfulness increases activation of the medial prefrontal cortex and decreases activation of structures like the amygdala that trigger our emotional responses. This increases our control over the emotional brain.
Bessel van der Kolk
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche