Raymond Aron Quotes
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
Raymond Aron
Quotes to Explore
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren Bennis
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
Dani Shapiro
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Ted Williams
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
Pam Bondi
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
Rabih Alameddine
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.
L'Wren Scott
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
Ice T
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
Malcolm X
