Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
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To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
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Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but—further—she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, I heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face: it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral;
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Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.
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Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.
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That would benefit both sides so that they'd be broader and more liquid.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
