Edgar Quinet Quotes

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

Edgar Quinet

• Satisfaction
• Possession
• Infinity
• Mistrust

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• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

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• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

  

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• Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

  

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• Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

  

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• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

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• I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

  

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• After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

  

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• I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

  

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• I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.

  

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• Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

  

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• The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

  

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• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  

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• The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

  

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• What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

  

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• You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

  

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• Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

  

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• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  

  Aristotle
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• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Satisfaction
  • Possession
  • Infinity