Ardant du Picq Quotes
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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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.
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's more money on the left in media than there is on the right.
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Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!
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The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
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I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.
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The journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.
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If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
