Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?
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The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.
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You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.
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The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
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I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
