Marcel Proust Quotes
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
Quotes to Explore
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Talent is very hot.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
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Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.
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I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
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It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.
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I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I’m an emotional human being. I’m very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem!
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
