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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Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.
