Maximilien Robespierre Quotes
Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I'll do whatever I can, and leave the rest to God.
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Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
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From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.
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A man he was to all the country dear,And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
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It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.
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Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
