Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Marquise de Pompadour) Quotes
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild
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As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
Vanessa Redgrave
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My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
Jack Levine
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
Burke Marshall
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
E. O. Wilson
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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
Quentin S. Crisp
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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
Haruki Murakami
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
Walter Cronkite
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But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson