Emil Cioran Quotes
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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No one comes into our house and pushes us around.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
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The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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There's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven, except change his immigration policies.
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If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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For the Buddha and Early Buddhism, this is above all the defining crisis at the heart of the human condition: we are bound to a chain of rebirths, and bound to it by nothing other than our own ignorance and craving. The pointless wandering on in saṃsāra occurs against a cosmic background of inconceivably vast dimensions. The period of time that it takes for a world system to evolve, reach its phase of maximum expansion, contract, and then disintegrate is called a kappa (Skt: kalpa), an eon.
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In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.
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If health care is a $2.7 trillion industry, and a huge percentage is paid by the government, then you have to be involved in politics to make a difference.
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
