Bernard Moitessier Quotes
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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We all are humans first. There is no religion that defines us.
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The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.
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I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
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My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
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If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.
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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
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This is really exciting news to a community that was hard-hit in the early '90s with the loss of Fort Ord.
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For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.
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I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
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Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
