Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Champfleury) Quotes
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Tom Stoppard
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At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.
George Gilder
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Who longest waits most surely wins.
Helen Hunt
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
Tertullian
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Persuasion should come before force. In any case it is the availability of raw power, not the use of it, that makes for effective diplomacy.
Edmund Morris
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Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'
Bernie Parent
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
Lewis Carroll
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She had reached the perfidious age when a woman’s beauty, like a full-blown rose, fades in a day.
Emile Gaboriau
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I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
William Cowper
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I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
Michael Palin
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I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.
Haruki Murakami
