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Mircea Eliade Quotes

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Mircea Eliade

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: romanian
Birth: March 13, 1907 - April 22, 1986

Topics

Life Death Religion Speak Problem

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Jenny McCarthy

Talking Know Maybe About Basically

In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.

John Harsanyi

Time Research Game Australia Unknown

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

Andrew Buchan

School People Laugh Comedy Back Get

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Jean de La Fontaine

Others See Through Us Like

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

Good People Long You Places Means

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

Stephen Kinzer

Economic Only Interests Governments

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Tom Perez

Work Live Opportunity Alone Simple

You talk about meant to be - oh my goodness, I have never done anything else in my life except be a performer.

Rita Moreno

Life My Life You Meant To Be Done

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Ruth Bernhard

Beauty Because Sensual Chosen Been

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Allan Gurganus

Friend Walls Me House Summer New

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Pete Wentz

Me House Sometimes Nothing Strange

There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

Sebastian Coe

Losing Feel Loser You Lose Bad