Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
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His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.
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The master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: 'When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.'
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
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We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
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I'm a horrible public speaker.
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Young people, especially, are turning away from McDonald's towards healthy, locally-sourced options like Next Door and Sweetgreen.
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This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
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I think he’s a pervert. It’s dangerous to allow him on the convention floor.
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I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
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While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.
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Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
