Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.
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The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
