Jacques Roumain Quotes
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
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The main thing I hope people see is how passionate I am about my work, and I know people talk about it, but I do work really hard on my stuff, and it means a lot to me.
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We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.
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Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
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Don't you open your mouth about the best!
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Experience is the cane of the blind.
