Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Barbara Demick
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.
Larry Hagman
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
Vin Diesel
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
Barry Marshall
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
Damien Chazelle
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Coal is a portable climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
Lord Byron
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
Claire McCaskill
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
Bulent Ecevit
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'
Mary Beard
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute
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The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.
Dalai Lama
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
N.D. Wilson
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard