Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
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We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
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The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
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I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
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As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
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The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
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Give me something to do and you will make me happy.
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The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.
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When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.
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While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
