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.
Vicente Fox
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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.
Edmund Morgan
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
Ofra Strauss
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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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.
Ferran Adria
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I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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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.
Yossi Sarid
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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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.
Gabrielle Giffords
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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.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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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.
Walter Bagehot
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
Jackie Speier
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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.
Patrick Modiano
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
Camille Paglia
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If wishes were stories, beggars would read...
Randall Jarrell
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Edmund Burke
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We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
Tahar Rahim
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To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.
George Perez
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
Albert Camus
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In business, you try to solve problems.
Bob Corker
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard