Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
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Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.
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Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
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You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.
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I want to work and be happy.
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There is no wisdom but in death
