Nicolas Malebranche Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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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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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
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Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.
