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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The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
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I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
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True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
