Paul Valery Quotes
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Quotes to Explore
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
Naomi Klein
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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.
James Brolin
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Coming into 'Dancing With the Stars,' I thought it would be a lot easier.
Laurie Hernandez
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My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery