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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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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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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The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I like a good pompadour.
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The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
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I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.
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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.
