Charles Richet (Prof Charles Robert Richet) Quotes
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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What is important is that you're honest with the American people.
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It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wouldn't be that many novels written because everyone feeds off everybody else.
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I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that's my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.
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I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.
