Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.Simone de Beauvoir
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
Carly Fiorina -
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams -
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Orlando Bloom -
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Nathalie Kelley -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
Hamid Karzai -
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel -
Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
Patrick Kane -
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler -
Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
Dana Perino -
The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
Naveen Jain
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The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.
Gautam Adani -
The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
M. Stanton Evans -
There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
Sam Altman -
During his sixty-odd years, he had found there were as many louts in the patrician classes as there were ignoramuses farther down the social spectrum.
Jack McDevitt -
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
Alfred North Whitehead -
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham -
Nvidia, fuck you!
Linus Torvalds -
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
Adam Michnik -
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
Simone de Beauvoir