"The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead."
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"I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself."
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"Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life."
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"My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether."
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"How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
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"He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power."
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""We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?...""
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"Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art"
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"A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be."
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"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself."
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"Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity."
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"Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life"
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"My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society."
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"What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit."
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"Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything."
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"Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it."
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"Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness."
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"A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to."
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"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
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