Baldassare Castiglione Quotes
Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
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In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country
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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
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Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
