Emil Cioran Quotes

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

Emil Cioran

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  

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• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

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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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  • Life
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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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  • Think
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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.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Quality
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• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

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

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
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• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
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• Tech is all about building human connections.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Human
  • Building
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• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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  • People
  • Fun
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• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

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• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

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  • World
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• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
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• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

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• One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

  

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• The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of god-like power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

  

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  • God
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• Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
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• I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

  

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  • God
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• I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.

  

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

  

  Emil Cioran
  • God
  • Tears