Emil Cioran Quotes
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.
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I don't think they packed it in. I just thought we played great defense. I thought we moved the ball incredibly well and got open shot after open shot.
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Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.
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The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
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I hope to continue the great tradition that you have created for us in this state of leadership in Albany.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"
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When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
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How can you hide from what never goes away?
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In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.
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In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge.
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
