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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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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When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?
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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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He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
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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.
