Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I would like to direct.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
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If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.
