Pierre Corneille Quotes
Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments,Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise,Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.
Pierre Corneille
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson
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It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
Rachel Brosnahan
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You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.
Arthur Daniel Miller
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xun Kuang
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
Bashar al-Assad
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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
Ian Rankin
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
M.I.A.
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While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you.
Taliesin
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Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
Patanjali
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'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4
Ian MacKaye
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
P. G. Wodehouse
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
Larry Wall
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One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.
George Deukmejian
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I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
Narendra Modi
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O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.
Martin Luther
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Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.
Edwina Findley
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Ma raison, il est vrai, dompte mes sentiments,Mais, quelque autorité que sur eux elle ait prise,Elle n'y règne pas, elle les tyrannise.
Pierre Corneille