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Emil Cioran Quotes

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sacrifice Envy Kind Insignificant

My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Home Stress War World You Say

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

Andrew Sullivan

Life Honesty Gay Anything Internal

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

Great World Limits Speak You Clumsy

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

Health Care Health Care Most Failed

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Russia Modern Poet Historian Became

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Roberto Azevedo

Work Limits Learn Possible Within

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

Believe House Say Adolescence Word

In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.

Change Experience People Fearless

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

Lorraine Hansberry

Work Morning Conflict Think You Go

I'm known to be aggressively early.

After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.

Change Good Start You Healthy After

If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

Business Money Doing Back Company

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