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“Wherever you go, there you are.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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“A mistake in judgment isn’t fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.” — Pauline Kael, “Zeitgeist and Poltergeist; or, Are Movies Going to Pieces?” (December 1964)
“Regrettably, one of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.” — Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael

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“The charge of moral blindness more typically seems little more than name calling, where we blithely dismiss the intuitions of those who disagree with us, assuming without any further evidence than the mere fact of the disagreement itself that it is they who are blind, rather than us.” — Shelly Kagan

Shelly Kagan

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“The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.” — Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn

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“We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

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“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.” — Allan Kaprow, Assemblages, Environments and Happenings

Allan Kaprow

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“Tradition is not in the past, tradition is how the present looks at the past.” — Thomas Kasulis, “Self East and West (Part 1),” Microphilosophy with Julian Baggini

Thomas Kasulis

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“You either believe what you think or you question it.” — Byron Katie

Byron Katie

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“I hope that when machines finally take over, they won’t build men that break down, as soon as they’re paid for.” — Bob Kaufman, “Heavy Water Blues”

Bob Kaufman

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“Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.” — Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven
“How we remember changes how we have lived.” — Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven
“What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?” — Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven

Guy Gavriel Kay

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“Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.” — Jackie Kay, Trumpet

Jackie Kay

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“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.” — Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen

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“Resist our tendencies to make ‘right’ or ‘true’ that which is merely familiar, and ‘wrong’ or ‘false’ that which is only strange.” — Robert Kegan

Robert Kegan

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“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.” — Garrison Keillor, Pontoon

Garrison Keillor

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“Don’t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it.” — Kevin Kelly #quote #KevinKelly
“Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.” — Kevin Kelly #quote #KevinKelly
“A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about a subject so that you can’t believe how ignorant you were a year earlier.” — Kevin Kelly #quote #KevinKelly

Kevin Kelly

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“Looking back on things, the view always improves.” — Walt Kelly, Impollutable Pogo
“Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin’ to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.” — Walt Kelly, Impollutable Pogo

Walt Kelly

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“I suppose a child’s first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.” — Judith Kelman, Where Shadows Fall

Judith Kelman

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“We are all the author of our own fiction, but none of us knows the plot.” — Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy

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“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” — John F. Kennedy, Yale University Commencement Address (1962-06-11)
“Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy,  Address in Paulskirche, Frankfurt (1963-06-25)
“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy, Yale University Commencement Address (1962-06-11)

John F. Kennedy

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“It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.” — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Jack Kerouac

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“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?” — Jean Kerr
“I make mistakes; I’ll be the second to admit it.” — Jean Kerr, “I was a Sand Crab”, The Snake Has All the Lines

Jean Kerr

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“To understand is to marvel.” — Larkin Kerwin, “The Role of Canadian Science,” Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lecture (1985)

Larkin Kerwin

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“That’s the one thing that everybody in the world can do, ain’t it, Willard? is die … living is the hassle.” — Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
“Can I possibly go back and wrest from my past some remnant of a better beginning? Some start toward a better scene?” — Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
“Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.” — Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

Ken Kesey

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“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” — John Maynard Keynes
“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.” — John Maynard Keynes
“It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.” — John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes

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“The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.” — Cassius Jackson Keyser, “The Walls of the World,” The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking

Cassius Jackson Keyser

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