Ardant du Picq Quotes
The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.
Ardant du Picq
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
Zoe Saldana
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
Joanne Rowling
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Vachel Lindsay
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I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
Laura Esquivel
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
Barbara Kruger
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
James A. Garfield
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.
Andrew Breitbart
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I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.
Alex Grey
