Emil Cioran Quotes
The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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I shop, therefore I am.
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
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Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
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Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense.
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We'd go to the crappiest mountain because they had the cheapest lift tickets.
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One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.
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The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!
