Emil Cioran Quotes
As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.
Quotes to Explore
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.
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Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
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It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.
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III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
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As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.
