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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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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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.
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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.
