Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.
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A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
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Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.
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We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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“Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
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Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
