Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.
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Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off
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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I felt a sensation that later in my life was often repeated: the joy of the new.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
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Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
