Andre Sainte-Lague Quotes
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
Ian Holm
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
Barkhad Abdi
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
Adam Mansbach
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In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.
Gail Devers
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
Lalla Ward
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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
E. L. Doctorow
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Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.
Barack Obama
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
Abigail Adams
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When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.
Jack LaLanne
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
Lord Byron
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Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many jihadists have escaped.
Christopher Hitchens
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I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
Lucy Davis
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We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Charlie Dent
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
Victor Hugo
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The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.
Adam Leipzig
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
Andre Sainte-Lague