Jules Romains Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.
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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.
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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
