Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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You are creating a Frankenstein. - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concerned about the growing strength of the Islamist movement, told President George H. W. Bush.
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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
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I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.
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Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.
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Make the most of online banking to make your life easier and keep your finances organized. Online banking is great because it offers quick, easy, 24-hour access to your checking and savings accounts.
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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
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God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.
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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
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Calomniez, calomniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.
