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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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.
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I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
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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.
