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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.


Krzysztof Kieslowski

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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
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DANIEL GILMAN I swallowed. Be strong, Valentina. The wish of a dead man is sacred. Don’t break your promise.
CORA REILLY Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of wi...
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MATTHEW ALEXY We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
RANSOM RIGGS We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too m...
BILL RICHARDSON We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.
C. JOYBELL C. The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of exper...
TOM CHEETHAM Believing in the person you love, first you have to make sure they believe in you too.
SANDIBEL DIAZ In regaining your lost years, it is important to realize that you cannot work at the same speed as y...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Wealth lost---something lost; honor lost---much lost; Courage lost---all lost.
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DAMON LINDELOF Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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ROALD DAHL We've got some mental things to work on. We lost our composure and spent too much time in the penalt...
ED GANTT .It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...
SIGMUND FREUD ...no matter how damaged or lost you think you are you can find your way back. Keep believing and yo...
JOEY RENEE Sarcasm is lost in print.
JON CRYER Paradise Lost is sometimes Heaven found.
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PETER CAPALDI We all do not know what actually we look for in life,but we all find something missing in life.
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IRIS KREBBER Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opin...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Life is not a wish granting factory.
JOHN GREEN My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
COLUMBA BUSH Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.
MARK TWAIN Out of all the shit I have ever lost, I don't miss my mind too much.
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GLENN DAVIS In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
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ADOLFO CAMBIASO As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few
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HARRY CHAPIN We had way too many days off. We lost our rhythm. We lost our feel.
AL HARRINGTON In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.
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