Anatole France Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
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Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
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The use of crypto-currency as a surrogate for the ruble in trading in goods and services, in our opinion, has a risk of undermining the circulation of money.
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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
