Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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Hungary needs Russia.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.
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The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
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Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.
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When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
