Emil Cioran Quotes

Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

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• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

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• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

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• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

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• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  

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  • Me
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• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

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• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

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• I don't eat any red meat.

  

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  • Growth
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• Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  

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• Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • God
  • Tears