Victor Hugo Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
