Albert Camus Quotes
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!
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If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?
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It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
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For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
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Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.
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To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.
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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
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Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
