Pierre Corneille Quotes
L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos penséesN'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
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I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
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The end crowneth the work.
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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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I think we all have a lot of room to drop and our takeovers were really safe so tonight we're still going to be safe but a little bit more risky than we were this morning and see if we can get our hand on the wall for a medal.
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L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos penséesN'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.
