Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
Patrick deWitt -
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
Andre Rieu -
I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
R. C. Sproul -
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
Idries Shah
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Loveless moments are to be avoided.
Yusef Lateef -
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
A. J. P. Taylor -
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
Andy Grove -
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
Leon Uris -
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.
Armand Hammer
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My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
Howie Mandel -
Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.
William Wickenden -
The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.
John Hancock -
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau