Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Ernest Dimnet
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
Vic Fuentes
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
Hans Jonas
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
Hal Sparks
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
Manfred von Richthofen
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.
Octave Mirbeau
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
Andrew Mason
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I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.
Barack Obama
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
Charles Davenport
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I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team.
Phil Jackson
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.
Vladimir Putin
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
Blaise Pascal
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.
Sigmund Freud
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
William Cowper
