Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!
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Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
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There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise
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the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
