Eric Voegelin Quotes
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
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And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
