Rene Dubos Quotes

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

Rene Dubos

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• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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  • True
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• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
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  • Tears
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• I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
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• With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Book
  • Convinced

• The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
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  • May
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• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Trust

• It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Environment

• What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Space

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People
  • Amazing

• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

  Charles B. Rangel

• The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Great
  • Community
  • Jump

• Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Great
  • Value
  • Travel

• I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Books
  • Loved
  • Notch

• It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • People
  • Important
  • Attention

• Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Wonder
  • Promise
  • Bombs

• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Health
  • Wonder
  • Pretense