Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.
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I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
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I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.
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Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
