Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
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Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.
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Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
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If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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The public has shown confidence that any increases in inflation will be temporary and that, in the long run, inflation will remain low.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
