Evan Osnos Quotes
Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.
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...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.
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Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
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If you go to Canada or Los Angeles, you will get to see many South Asians there, but on screens, they are so less in number. It is abnormal not to have much South Asians on screens.
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I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion. It's not one you look for. You don't want this kind of compassion; it just happens.
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It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
