Madame de Stael Quotes

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

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• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
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• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
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• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
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• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
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• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Balance
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• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
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• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
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• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

  Victoria Justice
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• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
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• 'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.

  

  Jason Robards
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• I'm not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we've got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.

  

  Bruce Nordstrom
  • Work
  • Business
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• No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

  

  Dudley North
  • Money

• Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not be important. When, however, we come to the question of man's Being, this is not something we can simply compute by adding together those kinds of Being which body, soul, and spirit respectively possess--kinds of being whose nature has not as yet been determined. And even if we should attempt such an ontological procedure, some idea of the Being of the whole must be presupposed.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Being

• Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Struggle

• Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

  

  Madame de Stael
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