Raymond Aron Quotes

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Raymond Aron

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
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  • Evil
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• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
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• It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
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• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Family
  • Society
  • Rest

• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Saying

• No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Small

• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • World
  • Change
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• They have done so much day in and day out and I want to thank all my friends and family, particularly my mother, who was born before women could vote, and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
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• I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • God

• I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

  

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  • Pool

• The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

  

  Lily James
  • Movie
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• When you are young, you are a little naive.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • People
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• I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • School
  • Parents
  • Singing

• I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Kids
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• When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit. You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status, and God knows what.

  

  James Carville
  • God
  • American
  • Political

• Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Experience
  • Practice
  • Preaching