Victor Hugo Quotes
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
Victor Hugo
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
Abraham Verghese
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
Veronica Cartwright
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
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Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.
Otto von Bismarck
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
L. Frank Baum
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
Bridgette Wilson
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid
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All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
William Cowper
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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
Diogenes
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My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
John Hickenlooper
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
Victor Hugo
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
Victor Hugo