Alain Finkielkraut Quotes
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.
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… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
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When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellusquae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.
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Be lazy, go crazy.
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I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
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The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
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I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.
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Every game is different. Every opposition comes with a different threat.
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You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.
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Hear the mellow wedding bellsGolden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretellsThrough the balmy air of nightHow they ring out their delight!
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If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have 'racist,' 'fascist,' 'homophobe,' 'ugly,' and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of 'dumb' would nearly cripple them.
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
