Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
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Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.
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My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty
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Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.
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New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.
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I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.
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Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.
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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.
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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
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Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases—through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam’s donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
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I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
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A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
