Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
Patrick deWitt
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
Rafer Johnson
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
Aaron Neville
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
Octave Mirbeau
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
Naoto Kan
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
J. M. Coetzee
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
Orson Scott Card
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
