Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.
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I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
