Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
Ernest Renan
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
Gary Lineker
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
Aaron Rodgers
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
Edgar Wright
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
Taron Egerton
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
Jack Antonoff
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Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.
Nachman of Breslov
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
Napoleon Hill
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Oscar Wilde
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Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
Tom Shadyac
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The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.
George Sarton
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Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
Rowan Williams
