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Emil Cioran Quotes

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: romanian
Birth: April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995

Topics

Great Cut Off Been Whose Martyrs

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

Community People Class Poor Write

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

John C. Calhoun

Support People Reality Others Pay

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Business Money Baseball Losing Bad

When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves.

Pink Black Boots Out Wear Used

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

History Budget Plan Down Washington

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

Life Great People Doubt You Person

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

Work Best Darkness I Am Solitude

Sometimes it should be the job of Broadway to introduce stars as well as cast them.

Stars Job Sometimes Introduce Well

If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it would be a burden because it wouldn't be natural to me to be dealing in music when my natural ability is in woodwork or whatever. But because my natural talent is also music, it kind of makes it much easier.

Father Music Talent Me Legacy Kind

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring

Good Conflict Democracy Living Duty

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.

You Television Go Sides Buy Crowd

When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.

Day Busy Doing I Can Now Kid

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