Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
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I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.
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I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.
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It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
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I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.
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Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
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I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.
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It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.
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A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.
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You know what uranium is, right? It's a thing called nuclear weapons and other things like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.
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I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
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That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
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Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.
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You can't evade a thing. Those who try to get around it are weak. Those who meet it gallantly are strong. So many women try to dodge life. They don't economize because it's inconvenient. They don't work because it's tiring. They don't have a child because it's painful. They don't look at the dead because it's saddening. Face them all, Laura. Face them squarely and meet them gallantly... as your grandmother did. For every one of the old experiences will be there... birth... marriage... death... disappointment... grief... little joys... little sorrows. You'll have to meet them all. It's part of the story...
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
