Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I like being unconventional.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
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In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
