Elaine Scarry Quotes
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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I've learned a lot since last time around. You learn a lot about yourself, about competing and training.
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The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
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Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.
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Perhaps uncertainty is a good trait, in line with the complexity of the world in which we live.
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Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
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Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
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When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier.
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Law of Attraction is Universal, and every person is affected by it. And it is always true that what I think and what I feel and what I get are always a match.
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Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
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What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering.
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Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
