Bruno Le Maire Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.
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...absolutely no alert measures ... are necessary at this time or contemplated.
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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
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In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
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We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
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Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
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For nations and societies, the 'good' or benefit of technology is often expressed in economic terms, in measures such as workplace productivity and business growth.
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You gotta be able to change worlds.
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... it is true that I do not respect human life more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
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Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
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The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.
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If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.
