Milan Kundera Quotes
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals.
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders.
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In love there is no because.
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We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.
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Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.
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That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down.
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As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
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Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament text, namely that the wide-ranging variations in the tradition showed that Christian faith could not be based solely on scripture (the Protestant Reformation doctrine of sola scriptura), since the text was unstable and unreliable. Instead, according to this view, the Catholics must be right that faith required the apostolic tradition preserved in the (Catholic) church.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
