Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
Laura Wilkinson
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
Karen DeCrow
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
Lana Wood
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Irena Sendler
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I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.
Che Guevara
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Drunk on the wind in my mouth,Wringing the handlebar for speed,Wild to be wreckage forever.
James Dickey
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell
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One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.
Barack Obama
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We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
Alexis de Tocqueville