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To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. (1 dec 2021, hamlet Act 3, Scene 1)William ShakespeareDalarna

Frånvaro dämpar en sval passion och förstärker en stark passion, på samma sätt som vinden släcker ett ljus men kommer en eld att flamma upp.François de la RochefoucauldPassion

We will be going to the Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find any ballots at four o’clock in the morning and add them to the list. Ok? (5 nov 2020, under sitt tal till nationen på onsdagsmorgonen.)Donald TrumpUSA-val

His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. (11 dec 2016, from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech read by Azita Raji, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, during the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm.)Bob DylanNobelpriset

”Jag hörde att dåligt betygsatta @Morning–Joe snackar illa om mig (tittar inte längre). Hur kommer det sig då att låg-IQ, galna Mika tillsammans med Psyko-Joe kom...". (29 jun 2017, twitter, i ett inlägg om Mika Brzezinski.)Donald TrumpUSA-val

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. (1 dec 2021, as You Like It Act 2, Scene 7)William ShakespeareDalarna