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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I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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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.
