Victor Hugo Quotes
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
Quotes to Explore
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
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I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.
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Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
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Life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
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A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.
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Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
