Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
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If I'm not capable of doing it, I won't do it. But you're going to get 120 percent of me every time I'm on the field.
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Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
