Victor Hugo Quotes

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

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• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

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• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

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• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

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• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

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• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

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• I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.

  

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• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

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• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

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• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

  

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• Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

  

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• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

  

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• The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged 'truth' which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

  

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• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

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• We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing.

  

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• I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.

  

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Torture
  • Museums