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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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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Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
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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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Get up, you useless lump, get up!
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
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The military option will remain on the table. If there is a good agreement to have, obviously it's worth waiting for and completing the negotiations.
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I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!
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Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world.
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When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.
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Women can do nothing that has permanence.
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Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.
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The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.
