Ernest Becker Quotes
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others to get a breath-quickening glimpse of the queen in her ritual procession, and confess to the priests and attend church. And we wonder why, with all this power capital drawn from so many sources, we are deeply anxious about the meaning of our lives. The reason is plain enough: none of these, nor all of them taken together, represents an integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
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I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
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I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
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Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
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I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.
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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
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The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others to get a breath-quickening glimpse of the queen in her ritual procession, and confess to the priests and attend church. And we wonder why, with all this power capital drawn from so many sources, we are deeply anxious about the meaning of our lives. The reason is plain enough: none of these, nor all of them taken together, represents an integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust.
