Pierre Corneille Quotes
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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I think I put a lot of special attention towards creating interesting textures and unique sounds. Music essentially boils down to two main elements: rhythm and melody. I feel tones and textures often get overlooked, so I like to take my time finding the right sounds.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
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A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
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He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers threw off the yoke of Popery in religion; for you is reserved the honor of leveling the popery of politics. They opened the Bible to all, and maintained the capacity of every man to judge for himself in religion.
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Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
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Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.
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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.
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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
