Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.
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One and God make a majority.
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I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!
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In my opinion, a nuclear rocket is an enabling technology for humans to go to Mars.
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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
