Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
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When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
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I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.
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What, like Harpic?
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As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
