Raymond Queneau Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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A 2014 study commissioned by Facebook and done by Deloitte suggests that Facebook alone contributes almost $150 billion directly to the global economy, and when you add the peripherals, it nears $227 billion.
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Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Continue to study and learn new skills.
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I didn't study music. I literally lived it.
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Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
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When somebody tells you that - 'You've never played this sport, but I think you can be a playmaker' - you think the guy's crazy.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
