Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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I hate the word sexy.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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I will continue to stand strongly with my fellow House Democrats, with immigration reform advocates and with millions of hard-working, law-abiding families who want simply to remain together and contribute to our great country.
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O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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The Bible is God's love letter to us.
