Jacques Maritain Quotes
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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You can make a debut in 25 operas. But to make a debut at the Metropolitan Opera is huge.
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We now have a great opportunity to put land to good use, to take it out of those hands, lazy hands I might say, and put it into the working hands of our people.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
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A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
