Emil Cioran Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong -
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove -
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon -
Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars -
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
Anthony Bourdain -
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
Bertrand Russell -
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell -
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
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Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.
Benito Mussolini -
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
Leo Strauss -
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo Coelho -
I'm not concerned with what people think of me.
Don Lemon -
A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
Daniel Humm -
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Penelope Lively
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
Jack O'Connell -
Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
William Shakespeare -
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.
Miranda July -
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.
Molly Ivins -
Tears do not burn except in solitude.
Emil Cioran