Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
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It still hasn't kicked in yet. I haven't had a second to think about it. And I don't physically have the Grammy! So I can't even look at it!
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
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we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
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I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
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One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.
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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
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We're on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We're going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.