Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
David Hume
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
Chogyam Trungpa
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
George Clooney
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Aristotle
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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
William Congreve
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
Albert Einstein
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Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.
William P. Young
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A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
