"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning."
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"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world."
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"The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world."
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"I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen."
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"What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out."
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"Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything."
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"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
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"There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency."
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"Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!"
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"I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me."
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"The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees."
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"To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world."
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"You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again."
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"Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it"
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"I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book."
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"The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself."
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"I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there."
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"Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world."
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"The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads."
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"There's a terror in knowing what the world is about"
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