Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
Quotes to Explore
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
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You cannot work with men who won't work with you.
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Charity is another passion of mine and I think it's important to give back. I'm a lucky guy, I've had a great life, I have a great family. I'm very blessed that way, so I believe in giving back a lot.
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Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
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A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.
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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
