Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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For as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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I don't watch television.
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
