Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
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Whenever an angel says 'Be not afraid!' you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.
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The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
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There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
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I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
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God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
