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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Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
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Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
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it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
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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.
