Victor Hugo Quotes
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I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
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I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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I knew if we could somehow take him away from his game or make it tough for him to score, our chances of winning the game were high.
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There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
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The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.
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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
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I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.
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If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.
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The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
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I don't think being monogamous is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.
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The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
