Alfred de Vigny Quotes
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
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I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
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By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
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Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
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The germ of every season comes from him
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
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It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.
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I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's where Vox Media is positioned.
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The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
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Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
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The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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L'histoire est un roman dont le peuple est l'auteur.
