Hernan Cortes Quotes

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

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• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Development
  • Ignore
  • Product

• Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Security
  • Policy

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
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• About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Writing
  • History
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• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fate
  • England
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• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Help
  • Know
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• I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Development
  • Stations
  • Mir

• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Vision
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• You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Never
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• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

  

  Jeff Bridges
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• A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • May

• My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • House
  • Desire

• Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Courage
  • Attitude
  • Gratitude

• When I'm not shooting, I like to spend time with friends and family.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Time
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• Every experience I've had with 'Power' has been so great, so to become a series regular was fantastic.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Home
  • Style
  • Evening

• With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Age
  • Culture
  • Mean

• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  

  Hernan Cortes