Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.
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Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.
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With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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If you love god, burn a church.
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'It was as true,' said Mr. Barkis, 'as turnips is. It was as true,' said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, 'as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.'
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
