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"A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object."
"I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me."
"But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct."
"With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly."
"I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter."
"I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants."
"Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon."
"Death is only a larger kind of going abroad."
"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds"
"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."
"There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle."
"Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe."
"It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good."
"Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn."
"I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said."
"The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
"I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing."
"The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had."
"When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up."
"Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity."
