Jules Verne Quotes
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.
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There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".
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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
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Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.
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Love is the cause of the civilization of nations in this mortal world!
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Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
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The Iranians had to come to the forefront of supporting and helping Iraq fight Daesh with advisers, with other help, logistical support for our armed forces, and we very much welcomed that.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
