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.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

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  • Fight

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

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  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

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  • Learn
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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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  • Time
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• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
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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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  • Best
  • Satisfied
  • Tastes

• With acting, I didn't get much from it.

  

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  • Acting
  • Get
  • Much

• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
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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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  • Flying
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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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  • People
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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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  • Universe
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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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  • Great
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• Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

  

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• But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

  

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  • Love
  • Power
  • Man

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  • Up
  • Waiting

• 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.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Power
  • War
  • Advance