Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
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The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.
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Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
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Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
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Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
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For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
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As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
