Diogenes Quotes
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
Ed Rendell
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
Vanity
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
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I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Daddy Yankee
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
B. F. Skinner
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
Kage Baker
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
Warren Farrell
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
Octavia E. Butler
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
Wallace Stevens
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Ultima ratio Regum
Cardinal Richelieu
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Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Alain Badiou
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That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.
Leonardo da Vinci
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
Cormac McCarthy
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
Jay Roach
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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Douglas Horton
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The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet understand that it will all go away.
Steve Martin
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Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Möglichen.
Otto von Bismarck
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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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He didn’t know anything about hummingbirds except that his father had told him that they liked to fight. So maybe you could like to fight and still be beautiful, like the hummingbirds.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes