Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Alabama has made great progress in proving that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean are liable for the devastating effects of the oil spill.
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Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
