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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.
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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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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man
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To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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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.
