Emile Durkheim Quotes
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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Reality? Your "reality", sir, is lies and balderdash, and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.
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After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.
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By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
