Overzicht van 239 Quotes
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„Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.”-Victor Hugo |
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„By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”-Robert Bringhurst |
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„We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”-David Lynch |
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„Don’t be afraid. You’re going to make it, but it’s always going to feel as if you’re not. That’s the fun, you see!”-Alan Watts |
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„Be so good they can’t ignore you.”-Steve Martin |
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„All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”-Blaise Pascal |
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„Be a voice, not an echo.”-Albert Einstein |
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„Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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„True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”-Karl Popper |
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„I can resist everything except temptation.”-Oscar Wilde |
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„The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you’re still a rat.”-Lily Tomlin |
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„Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”-Mark Twain |
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„If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”-Mark Twain |
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„A good friend will always stab you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde |
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„Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”-Fernando Pessoa |
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„Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”-Hunter S. Thompson |
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„When in doubt, don’t.”-Benjamin Franklin |
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„Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”-Søren Kierkegaard |
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„The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”-Mark Twain |
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„It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”-André Gide |
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„Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”-Anthony Bourdain |
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„A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”-Frank Zappa |
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„Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”-Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) |
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„Why is it that people with most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths”-Lewis Carroll |
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„If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”-Harry S. Truman |
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„I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”-Thomas Jefferson |
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„Lif is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”-Søren Kierkegaard |
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„We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”-Henry Ward Beecher |
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„Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”-Vincent Van Gogh |
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„Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that.”-George Carlin |
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„We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”-Omar Bradley |
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„Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.”-Bill Murray |
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„Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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„Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”-Søren Kierkegaard |
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„Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”-George Santayana |
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„All colours will agree in the dark.”-Francis Bacon |
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„Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.”-Bruce Schneier |
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„The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.”-Frank Zappa |
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„There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”-Tennessee Williams |
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„Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”-Carl Jung |
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„If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”-Coleman Hawkins |
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„If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”-Jean-Paul Sartre |
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„Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”-Isaac Asimov |
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„None of the evils which totalitarianism claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.”-Albert Camus |
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„Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt and being real gets you hated.”-Johnny Cash |
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„He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your wards.”-Elbert Hubbard |
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„Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”-George Carlin |
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„Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.”-George Carlin |
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„Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”-H. L. Mencken |
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„Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”-Edward Snowden |
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„The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”-Bob Marley |
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„All these people you are concerned about, did they create you?”-al-Ghazālī |
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„Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”-Albert Einstein |
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„Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”-Steve Jobs |
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„We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”-Charles Bukowski |
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„The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”-Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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„The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”-Jean-Paul Sartre |
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„The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”-Rene Descartes |
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„Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”-Jean-Paul Sartre |
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„Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.”-Nikola Tesla |
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„I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”-Robin Williams |
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„If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”-Carl Jung |
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„If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you’d stop living to impress people.”-Christopher Walken |
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„The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full in doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”-Charles Bukowski |
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„When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”-Leo Tolstoy |
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„So it goes.”-Kurt Vonnegut |
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„Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”-Albert Camus |
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„I drink to make other people more interesting.”-Ernest Hemingway |
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„Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”-Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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„Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”-Albert Camus |
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„We live in a world where there is more and more information and less meaning.”-Jean Baudrillard |
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„The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.”-Gil Scott-Heron |
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„I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”-Edgar Allan Poe |
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„Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”-Mark Twain |
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„A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”-George Savile |
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„Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.”-Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli) |
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„The more I see of men, the more I like my dog.”-Thomas Carlyle |
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„I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”-Friedrich Nietzsche |
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„Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”-Rudyard Kipling |
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„They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”-Carl W. Buehner |
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„Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”-Charles Bukowski |
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„Ik ben een kletskous, en daar kan je aardig wat geld mee verdienen.”-Koos Postema |
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„Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.”-T. S. Elliot |
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„Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”-Niccolò Machiavelli |
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„Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”-Terry Pratchett |
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„In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”-Albert Camus |
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„Being alone for a while is dangerous. It’s addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don’t want to deal with people anymore.”-Tom Hardy |
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„To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.”-Christine Caine |
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„Know a man not by the loudness of his voice, but by the depth of his silence.”-Acharya Prashant |
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„I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.”-Kabir |
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„It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”-Ansel Adams |
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„In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”-Abraham Maslow |
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„Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”-Mark Twain |
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„Lost time is never found again.”-Benjamin Franklin |
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„Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”-George Bernard Shaw |
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„Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”-Aldous Huxley |
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„The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”-Aldous Huxley |
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„We’re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”-Kurt Vonnegut |
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„I don’t know what the future holds. All I know is, I’m good today. Real good.”-Chris Farley |
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„Your identity is your prison.”-Etel Adnan |
