Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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People always want to doubt you.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.
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In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.
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I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
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I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
