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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It worked!
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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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PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan, I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. It's very nice if you win, but it's not so good if you lose. All this is part of being a Ferrari driver.
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There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
