Andre Comte-Sponville Quotes
It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it! It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines.
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In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
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The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
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What's the difference between yes and no?
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It's a very low-key approach for low-impact fishing.
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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
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To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
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Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.
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Obviously, it is a matter of grave concern that a British citizen has been killed,
