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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Georges Bataille
    “The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
    ― Georges Bataille
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: apollo, apollo-program, kennedy, lunar, moon, nasa, president-kennedy, rice-university, space, space-exploration, space-travel
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    Herman Melville
    “God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; the vulture the very creature he creates.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: obession
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  • #7
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    ― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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    Herman Melville
    “For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
    ― Herman Melville
    tags: beasts, beasts-and-men, men
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    David Hume
    “If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
    ― David Hume
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
    3132 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, regret
    1323 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: insparational
    800 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
    720 likes

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  • #22
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: adventure, anxiety, self-discovery
    648 likes

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  • #23
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    637 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: pleasure
    384 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: minority
    400 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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  • #30
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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