Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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If you want success, be unique.
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Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.
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Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.
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Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do - hopefully we all have that in us.
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You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.
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Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
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In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don't count for anything.
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I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
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Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.
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Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.
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To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.
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Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.
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A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.
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When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.
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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
