Ernest Gellner Quotes
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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Learn to thrill yourself. Affirm, 'Infinite Love fills my mind and thrills my body with its perfect life.' Make everything bright and beautiful about you. Cultivate aspirit of humor. Enjoy the sunshine.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
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Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
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I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.
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Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
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You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
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There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.
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The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
