Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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In a TV show, you are restricted to a lot of things. On television, you can't put the content you can put on web series and on the channels digitally.
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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
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I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.
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Clamorous pauperism feastethWhile honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
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Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.
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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
