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.Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Ian Lustick -
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
M.I.A. -
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.
Colum McCann -
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
Eric Schmidt -
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!
Meghan Trainor -
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
Idries Shah
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Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
G. D. H. Cole -
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.
Antonio Machado -
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.
Adam Sandler -
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.
Cynthia Heimel -
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
Billy Joel -
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.
Bert Williams
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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.
Dick Trickle -
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Bill Vaughan -
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.
Pablo Escobar -
From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
Janos Bolyai -
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey -
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
Herbert Spencer
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Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.
Adolf Hitler -
I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte