Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

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• Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

  

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  

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• Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

  

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• Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
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• The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

  

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• A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

  

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• New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

  

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• Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

  

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• I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
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• Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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• When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

  

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• Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

  

  Rod Stewart
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• If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.

  

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• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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