"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.“
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
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"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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-Nick Clegg
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-Jonathan Sacks
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