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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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
Adam Garcia
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
Sam Hunt
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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 very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell
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When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
Ma Jun
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
Val Guest
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So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.
Arthur J. Deikman
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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
