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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

  

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• Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

  

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• Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

  

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• A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

  

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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
  • Languages
  • Custom
  • Adopted