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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I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
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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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I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
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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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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
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We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.
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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.
