Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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I never go wild with nails.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
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If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space.
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No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.
