Jean Rostand Quotes
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
