Emile Durkheim Quotes

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Emile Durkheim

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• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Important
  • Game
  • Lawyer

• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Years
  • Now

• It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Never
  • Fame
  • After

• I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Fight
  • Against
  • Gang

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Ego
  • Changes
  • Self

• If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • She
  • Friend
  • Robot

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Frozen
  • Musically

• We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • World
  • Start
  • Same

• Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Friends
  • New

• Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Day
  • Like
  • Maybe

• You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

  Valerie June
  • Records
  • Loner
  • Relaxing

• Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Think
  • Now

• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Opportunity
  • Training
  • Gentleman

• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • Long
  • Book

• The terrorists are busy in and outside the country in such activities which are a danger to the unity and integrity of the country.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Country
  • Integrity
  • Unity

• Everyone sounded the same when they died.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Died
  • Sounded

• Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Good
  • Real
  • Evil

• By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

  

  Emile Durkheim