Emil Cioran Quotes
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Emil Cioran
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach
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I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
Zosia Mamet
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I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
Gaby Hoffmann
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
Babasaheb
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
Abdoulaye Wade
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
Orison Swett Marden
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This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
Felix Baumgartner
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
Natalie Massenet
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
Sam Kean
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.
William H. Seward
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To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.
Matt Taibbi
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The consequences of poor nutrition and a lack of exercise are serious.
Amy Klobuchar
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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Emil Cioran
