Hippolyte Taine Quotes
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
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In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
