Georges Sorel Quotes
Revolutionary syndicalism keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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My friends are gone and My hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent everyday In the Tower Of Song.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.
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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.
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At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
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If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
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Revolutionary syndicalism keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place.
