Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I don't really have a dream collaboration.
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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
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The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
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I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
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I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side.
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Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
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We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
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You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
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The conditions at Baxter do need to be improved and when we have finished the job, I think everybody will be very proud of it, ... It will never be a fun place to be but it will be very good.
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I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.
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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
