Jostein Gaarder Quotes
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
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A million years went by quick.
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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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I've done a lot worse than jump off piers, son. Like throw a television out the window.
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James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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Admiration, is a joy daily kindled afresh... I talk out of the -fullness of life; it belongs to me in a sense larger than that of ownership.
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There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
