Honore de Balzac Quotes
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Honore de Balzac
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
Faith Hunter
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
Kailash Kher
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Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.
Seth Godin
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To how much lying, extravagance, hypocrisy and servilism does not the fear of ridicule lead? Human respect makes us cowards and slaves. It may deter from evil, but much oftener it drives to baseness. 'We are too much afraid,' said Cato, 'of death, exile and poverty.'
John Lancaster Spalding
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
William Penn
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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Honore de Balzac
