Joko Beck Quotes
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I would have liked to be Birbal in Akbar's court, but a court jester also suits me just fine.
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My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.
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Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
