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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The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
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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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The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
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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.
