Jean Pigozzi Quotes
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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What is required is self-belief, most importantly. And secondly, you should be ready to listen, to be strong to acknowledge what your weakness is, and learn, improve... If you have that, then all this that you are talking about, fielding, running between wickets, they are all minor things...
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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But they say, 'It is not so much the Dreadnoughts we object to, it is pensions'. If they objected to pensions, why did they promise them? They won elections on the strength of their promises. It is true they never carried them out. Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.
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I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
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Every five years, I decide to learn something new.
