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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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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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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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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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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Theater was just what I was supposed to do.
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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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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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Racism consists in devaluing the humanity of certain people by dismissing it or playing it down even when not intentional at the same time as highlighting and playing up European philosophy, assuming it to be universal. It may be global, because it piggybacks on imperial expansion, but it certainly cannot be universal.
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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.
