Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.
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In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.
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Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.
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If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.
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Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.
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There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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Sow flowers to make a garden bloom around you, The thorns you sow will prick your own feet. Arrows shot at others Will return to hit you as they fall. You yourself will come to teeter on the lip Of a well dug to undermine another. Though you look at others with contempt, It's you whose body will be reduced to dust. Humanity is all one body; To torture another is simply to wound yourself. [...]Make your path straight now, by the bright light of day; For pitch darkness will come without warning.
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I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.
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Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
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Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
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I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
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Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
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Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'
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A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
