Albert Camus Quotes
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
Quotes to Explore
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
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If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
