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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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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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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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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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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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
