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Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically? — Chris Matthews

All things are subject to decay and change ... — Polybius

The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest? — Lev Shestov

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door. — Bill Bailey

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things. — Jimi Hendrix

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do! — Dolores Cannon

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man. — Lev Shestov

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive. — J.K. Rowling

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty. — Lev Shestov

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. — Lev Shestov

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible. — Lev Shestov

Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor. — Lev Shestov

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends. — Sidney Poitier

( ... )on earth everything has a beginning and nothing has an end. — Lev Shestov

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny. — Lev Shestov

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

She was a genius, my mother. — Sally Kirkland

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance. — Andre Aciman

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor. So if somebody were to pull the plug, there'd be no room for complaint. — Michael Fassbender

Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness). — Lev Shestov

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction. — Lev Shestov

More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position. — Lev Shestov