Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
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Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.
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I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.
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I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.
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Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
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The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
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I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.
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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
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True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
