Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
Daniel Dennett
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
Daniel Barenboim
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
Zahi Hawass
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
Olivier Theyskens
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
Victor Mitchell
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I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
Eric Kandel
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I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
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They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.
Jonathan Swift
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We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.
Julia Cameron
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While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
Confucius
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld