Ella Maillart Quotes
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
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We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
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I would never be on a reality show.
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
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People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
