Anatole France Quotes
Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
Anatole France
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
C. C. H. Pounder
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
Imogen Heap
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I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
Aaron Paul
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Orson Scott Card
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
Walter Scott
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done,But he with a chuckle replied 'maybe it couldn't,' but he would be one wouldn't say so till he'd tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar Guest
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We sell to businesses who sell other stuff, so we're just going to concentrate on doing that.
Jon Oringer
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Marquis de Sade
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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.
Thomas Hobbes
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The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
Anatole France