Emile Durkheim Quotes
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile Durkheim
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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.
Gary McCord
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Eckhart Tolle
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
Jack Keane
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright
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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.
Walter Savage Landor
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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.
Natasha Trethewey
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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.
Fidel Castro
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher
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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.
Olympia Dukakis
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
Carine Roitfeld
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
Natalie Dormer
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
Lady Gregory
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda
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That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
Marion Chesney
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
C. S. Lewis
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I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.
Kapil Dev
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Emile Durkheim
