Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

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• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

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• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

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• I'm not really into weight training.

  

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• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

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• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• White America is in the minority.

  

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• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

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• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Looking
  • Delight
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• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I have changed my mind about the testability and logical status of the theory of natural selection; and I am glad to have an opportunity to make a recantation.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Mind
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• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.

  

  P. D. James
  • Remember
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• Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.

  

  Alexander Pope
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• It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

  

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• It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
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  • Fun

• We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.

  

  Joseph David-Jones
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• A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Guitar
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• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • People
  • Enemy
  • Fool

• If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Good
  • Believe
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• A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fool
  • Troublesome
  • Pedant