Pierre Corneille Quotes
Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.
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I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
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If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.
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Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
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I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.
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You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else.
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‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’
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Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
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Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
