Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
Dana Perino
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Oliver Ellsworth
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
Harold Prince
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
Bill Gates
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I have a pretty open mind about supernatural stuff - I do believe that there's more to this world than what meets the eye.
Jennifer McMahon
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I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.
Ashraf Barhom
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
William Cowper
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
Alexis de Tocqueville