Emil Cioran Quotes
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
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There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.
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I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great!
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Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
