Emil Cioran Quotes
When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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No two wars are identical.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
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Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.
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But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.
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When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.
