Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despairs over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
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I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.
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I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
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We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."
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I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
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The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent - all depending on who wields it and how.
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Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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Science is the storytelling of our time.
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I told the guys it was like getting a monkey, and then I said a gorilla off our back.
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If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.
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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despairs over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
