“If someone tells me they’re offended, I’m still waiting to hear their point.”
– Christopher Hitchens
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The purpose of life – Rainer Maria Rilke
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Women’s rights? – Groucho Marx
“How do you feel about women’s rights? I like either side of them.”
– Groucho Marx
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A calm and humble life – Albert Einstein
“A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.”
– Albert Einstein
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Best friend – Henry Ford
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford
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Beyond ideas – Rumi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
– Rumi
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Question – Paul Bennett
“It’s not your job to walk into the room with the right answer, but with a great question.”
– Paul Bennett
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Wrong – Unknown
” When “everything you do is wrong”, you stop doing anything at all.”
– Unknown
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Opinion – Noam Chomsky
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum…”
– Noam Chomsky
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Loneliness – School of life
“Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.”
– School of life
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Pretending – Robert Brault
“In the end we’re the person we pretend to be. It’s the person we thought was pretending who never existed.”
– Robert Brault
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Mindset – John pavlus
“The mindset that life is a series of problems to be fixed leads to obsession with the means rather than the end.”
– John pavlus
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Reaction – Carl Jung
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
– Carl Jung
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Thinking – Carl Jung
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
– Carl Jung
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Superior – Ernest Hemingway
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
– Ernest Hemingway