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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“A deep distress hath humanised my soul.”
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“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
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“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
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