Victor Hugo Quotes
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
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I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.
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If you start a new career at 40, you've still got another 35 years to go.
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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
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I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.
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Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.
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In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
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As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.
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I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out.
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The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
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Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
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Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
