Mircea Eliade Quotes
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.
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This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.
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The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
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I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
