Pierre Corneille Quotes
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Quotes to Explore
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.
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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
