That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.


Hannah Gadsby

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
HANNAH ARENDT
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ...
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get type...
HANNAH MURRAY
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
HANNAH MORE
It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's...
HANNAH HARRINGTON
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
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There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
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No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
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Even though Graham and I went back to arguing and stealing socks and hiding each other's toothbrushe...
HANNAH MOSKOWITZ
I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they be...
SOPHIE HANNAH
Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them mov...
KRISTIN HANNAH
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And ...
HANNAH HARRINGTON
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it'...
DARYL HANNAH
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ...
HANNAH ARENDT
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardo...
HANNAH ARENDT
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our histo...
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses ha...
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It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in ...
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making...
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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor a...
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If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fift...
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