Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - 'Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
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I do go to the gym five days a week. Read more at https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/by-j-r-bourne#laZIuFZ5CffvPzkp.99
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Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.
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The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.
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They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
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A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
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According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.
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When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.
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I was never into smart college boy music.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
