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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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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Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?
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There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
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Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
