Andre Maurois Quotes
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
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I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on.
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If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.
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Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
