Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.
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I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.
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The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.
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The first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio,' upon its 1984 re-release, which would have put me at three years old.
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I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
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Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.
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When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.
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In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.
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The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.
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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
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Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity … because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
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David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.
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Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
