Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe -
Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
Tahar Rahim -
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen -
You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H. R. Giger
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Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!
Antonio Porchia -
In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
Geoff Dyer -
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
Peter Hargreaves -
Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.
Alain Macklovitch -
I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it all, the Iranian identity has survived. People are very courageous, especially the women, who are braver than the men.
Farah Pahlavi -
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
Saint Augustine
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
Edward Jenner -
Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
Dahlia Lithwick -
I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.
Zainab Salbi -
I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
Fritz Perls -
It's the narrowest of margins over there. It's difficult to get things out of the Senate. It would be very unfortunate if that happens, but I'm going to wait and see.
Dennis Hastert
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
Patricia Richardson -
There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.
William Stanley Jevons -
Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
Ramez Naam -
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
Albert Camus -
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Gaston Bachelard