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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I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.
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Don't waste your sorrows.
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But there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one’s own. What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image. And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire. I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes. This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly, that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!
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There's nothing he did wrong. No blame is pointed at him whatsoever.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
