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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Truth is the precious harvest of the earth. But once, when harvest waved upon a land, The noisome cankerworm and caterpillar, Locusts, and all the swarming foul-born broods, Fastened upon it with swift, greedy jaws, And turned the harvest into pestilence, Until men said, What profits it to sow?
George Eliot
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A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
Confucius
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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?
Fay Weldon
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Trap is new. It didn't start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn't exist - not even in the U.S. I've evolved with the music.
Bad Bunny
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld