Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
Tarja Halonen -
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Rand Paul -
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama -
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
Dan Hill -
When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
Eddie Marsan -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. Wilson -
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Paracelsus -
The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
Naomi Watts -
Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
Quincy Jones -
One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
Vijay Mallya
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How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?
Andrew Marvell -
Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.
Antonio Porchia -
My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
Bonnie Blair -
Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.
Brandon Stanton -
I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
Brian Chesky -
My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.
Dwayne Johnson
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The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
Elvis Mitchell -
Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.
Nicole Oresme -
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot -
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.
Wojciech Jaruzelski -
Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .
Cecily von Ziegesar -
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal