Marcel Proust Quotes
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
Bela Lugosi
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Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.
Robert H. Schuller
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I have had a lot of success with failure
Thomas A. Edison
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Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
John Stuart Mill
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Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I am sure, millions of people living in Japan have an urge to get to know each other, cooperate and exchange useful information, as well as a sincere desire that all problems that still remain unresolved be resolved.
Vladimir Putin
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Baruch Spinoza
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But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.
William Robertson Smith
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All things, however, are not equal. Longevity is not a trait that exists in isolation; it evolves as part of a complex life history, with a wide range of underpinning physiological mechanisms involving, among other things, chronic disease processes.
Michael Rose
Black Uhuru
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
Napoleon Bonaparte