Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children.
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Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
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In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
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We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
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I feel like he's taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and I will never know, never be any the wiser. But I do know. I know exactly what he's doing. And so I don’t trust him. In the end he is pushing me away, Dr. Nash. Ruining everything.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
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Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.
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Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
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Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
