Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.
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When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
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I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
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Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.
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There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
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I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
