Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
Cara Delevingne
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Jack Kilby
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
Imran Khan
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford
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Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush
Abbi Glines
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I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.
Sarah Palin
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Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
According as his humors lead,
A meaning suited to his mind.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.
Algis Budrys
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Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
