Honore de Balzac Quotes
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
