Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
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There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
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If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
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All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
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Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
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There's nothing like confidence.
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Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
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Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.
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Get up, you useless lump, get up!
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.
