Camille Saint-Saens (Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns) Quotes
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.
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Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.
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Only God singing this song of you... makes true light... somehow possible.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
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Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
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One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.
