Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.Bertrand de Jouvenel
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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.
Sabrina Carpenter -
My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty
Janet Jackson -
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.
Lev Vygotsky -
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.
W. Edwards Deming -
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.
Javier Solana -
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.
Aristotle
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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
Plato -
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
Plato -
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.
Vinny Guadagnino -
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.
Thomas A. Edison -
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
Leon Trotsky
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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso -
I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.
Sandy Duncan -
Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
Mother Teresa -
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Bertrand de Jouvenel