Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I'm not super into sports.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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If wishes were stories, beggars would read...
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
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I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.
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It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'
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I simply noted that one of the groups, especially exporters, would prefer to have a weaker rouble.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
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If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
