Paul Tournier Quotes
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
Dan Webster
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
Walther Bothe
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
Natalie Cole
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
Magic Johnson
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
Edgar Lee Masters
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Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.
Sam Harris
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All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.
Annie Proulx
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Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.
Linus Torvalds
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
Art Buchwald
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It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.
Alan Patricof
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
John King
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We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
Kathryn Schulz
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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier
