Adrienne Monnier Quotes
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
Adrienne Monnier
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
Adam Peaty
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
Patrick Macnee
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Gary Ackerman
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
Tanya Tucker
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
Washed Out
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Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
Ann Voskamp
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Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.
Katrina Adams
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
Bill Goldberg
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
Yanis Varoufakis
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German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
Adrienne Monnier
