Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

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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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• All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

  

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• I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

  

  Carl Reiner
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• Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

  

  Nelson Mandela
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• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  

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• I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

  

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• Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Progress
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  • Discovery