Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception.
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Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
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This announcement is very bad news, but the timing of action by the international community remains that agreed by the UN Security Council.
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Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and outlook actually have not changed much. And people who are closest to me will tell you that the guy who came here is the same guy who's leaving.
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Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.
