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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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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I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.
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I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
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We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.
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The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
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What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.
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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
