Honore de Balzac Quotes
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
Honore de Balzac
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Umberto Eco
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For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
W. Bruce Cameron
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While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
Kara Swisher
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
Miguel de Cervantes
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
Honore de Balzac