Klemens von Metternich Quotes
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
Klemens von Metternich
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon Hill
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
Tananarive Due
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In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
Dan Hill
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
Ovid
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
Octavio Paz
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When you're in a hole, stop digging.
Denis Healey
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Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
Josiah Strong
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy
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In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
Klemens von Metternich