Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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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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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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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
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I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.
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Nothing is above the Constitution.
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Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
