Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
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I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
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No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
