Emile Gaboriau Quotes
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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Fuel cells and the hydrogen economy are absolutely the next great race for industry.
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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Persistence is self-discipline in action.
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
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There was no agreement between us, there is a great gulf because the southern government still thinks the IRA should be there and by right should be taking part in these discussions and by right should be in any future government of Northern Ireland.
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There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in a novel and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.
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Gambling generally leads to stealing.
