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Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this they have two options. First, they can achieve what passes for great things. Now the external reality matches their feeling; they really are better than the rest and maybe they'll even be remembered as such. These are the ambitious people, the overachievers. These are also, however, the people who go on these abominable talk shows where they can trade their psychoses for exposure on that box, modernity's ultimate achievement. Not that this tact, being ambitious, is not the preferred course of action. The reason is it's the equivalent of sticking your neck out which we all know is dangerous. Instead many act like they have no ambition whatsoever. Their necks come back in and they're safe. Only problem is now they're at everyone else's level, which we've seen is untenable. The remedy of course is that everyone else needs to be sunk. This helps explain racism's enduring popularity. If I myself don't appear to be markedly superior to everyone else at least I'm part of the better race, country, religion et cetera. This in turn reflects well on my individual worth. There are other options, of course. For example, you can constantly bemoan others' lack of moral worth by extension elevating yourself. Think of the average person's reaction to our clients. Do these people strike you as so truly righteous that they are viscerally pained by our cl ~ Sergio De La Pava

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work. ~ Oscar De La Renta

To stay in Djemal's good graces, or to soften the punishment when that failed, the foreign community in Jerusalem most often looked to two men. One was the dashing consul from neutral Spain, Antonio de la Cierva, Conde de Ballobar, who, having assumed the consular duties of most all the European "belligerent" nations, was extraordinarily well informed and influential. ~ Scott Anderson

I'm always traveling, so I tend to online shop. My go-to sites are Net-a-Porter and Matches. I recently moved to N.Y.C. and frequently shop at Sur La Table for my kitchen; Flair home collection, Aedes de Venustas for all my favorite home fragrances. ~ Jourdan Dunn

Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best. ~ Oscar De La Renta

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then. ~ Mazo De La Roche

We all covet wealth, but not its perils. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

All Sera could do was shake her head. "Please understand, Dak. The only reason the older me is walking so close to the older you is because there's not a whole lot else to choose from."
"Whatever you say," Dak told her. "Come here, let's hook our arms together and see if it's a good fit."
"Gross," Sera said. "I'd rather make out with my dog. ~ Matt De La Pena

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. ~ Julien Offray De La Mettrie

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

As we grow older, we increase in folly
and in wisdom. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Faith is in your Heart; Religion is in your Head. ~ Gabbo De La Parra

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know. ~ Josephine De La Baume

Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

There are a ton of reasons why I shouldn't be with you, but none are convincing enough to keep me from being here, tonight. ~ Gretchen De La O

It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs. ~ Josephine De La Baume

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me. ~ Oscar De La Hoya

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The only thing constant in life is change. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now. ~ Oscar De La Renta

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse. ~ Loulou De La Falaise

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Why is sex so bad seen like I can't find it's contras ~ Mariana Calderon De La Barca

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum. ~ John Mortimer

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius. ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. ~ Ryan Phillippe

I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

This is why he never took these jobs anymore, Wes realized. It was too much-he couldn't save everybody-he couldn't even keep his solders alive, let alone in a line. Daran was lost, and while he was a jerk and a lowlife, he had still entrusted his life to Wes and Wes had failed him. He couldn't keep doing this, there were so many ... and he was too young to watch so many kids die. Now he was being asked to save a few more ... for what? So he could watch them starve? ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws. ~ Oscar De La Hoya

Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if they knew a madman was down there a thousand feet below in all that windy fury sitting in the dark writing in the dark - Some sort of sea beatnik, tho anybody wants to call me a beatnik for THIS better try it if they dare - The huge black rocks seem to move - The bleak awful roaring isolateness, no ordinary man could do it I'm telling you - I am a Breton! I cry and the blackness speaks back "Les poissons de la mer parlent Breton" (the fishes of the sea speak Breton) - Nevertheless I go there every night even tho I dont feel like it, it's my duty (and probably drove me mad), and write these sea sounds, and all the whole insane poem "Sea". ~ Jack Kerouac

And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received? ~ Juana Ines De La Cruz

Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that. ~ Josephine De La Baume