"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."

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Diahann Carroll

#Distance Quotes #Holding On Quotes #Sanity Quotes

“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”
“La vÃ©ritÃ© est sur une courbe dont notre Ã©sprit suit Ã©ternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.”
“I'm the ***** Prime Minister!”
“As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible. ... Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.”
“Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.”
“A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.”
“I don't fail. I succeed at finding out what doesn't work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era - that it is a secular substitute for religion, hallmark of modern civilization, a priori liberal and cosmopolitan, with authors appearing to implicitly embody such pious ideals - you encounter a less agreeable reality: parochialism, blinkered views, even racial prejudices of the kind the bourgeoisie have held everywhere.”

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