Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold -
I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
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In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.
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Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
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The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
