Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it
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You've gotta stop making stuff up.
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The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.
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You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.
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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.
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When I was young, I was religious.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.
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I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
