Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.
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Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
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Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
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The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.
