Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.
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Perfection itself is imperfection.
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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Man makes god in his own image.
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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One more instance I will give of his interest and his knowledge. We were passing under a fir tree when we heard a small song in the tree above us. We stopped and I said that was the song of a golden-crested wren. He listened very attentively while the bird repeated its little song, as its habit is. Then he said, "I think that is exactly the same song as that of a bird that we have in America"; and that was the only English song that he recognized as being the same as any bird song in America. Some time afterwards I met a bird expert in the Natural History Museum in London and told him this incident, and he confirmed what Colonel Roosevelt had said, that the song of this bird would be about the only song that the two countries had in common. I think that a very remarkable instance of minute and accurate knowledge on the part of Colonel Roosevelt. It was the business of the bird expert in London to know about birds. Colonel Roosevelt's knowledge was a mere incident acquired, not as part of the work of his life, but entirely outside it.
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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This game seems to happen so fast, it happens so quickly. I was glad to get back in the clubhouse and know that we had a win. That was the most important thing.
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There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.
