Emil Cioran Quotes
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
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I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
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When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.
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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
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There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.
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Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
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When something is not good, it's bad. Period
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If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.
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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
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The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
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Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.
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This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
