Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?
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The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.
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I was particularly good at math and science.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
