Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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There always have been funny women.
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
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That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
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You can't win what you don't fight for.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
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Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson – harpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love – the broken fragments, the fallen leaves – and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out – she’s driving down your street.
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I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
