Mircea Eliade Quotes
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'
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Chinese people age overnight.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I've done a lot of things in my life.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
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Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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'Cause baby now we got bad blood.You know it used to be mad love.So take a look at what you've done.'Cause baby now we got bad blood.
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Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!
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We were so in love back then now you're listening to what they say.
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'Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.'
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In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
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Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
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A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.
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I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'
